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HONG KONG.

No. 15 of 1940.

I assent.

NL. Smith

Oficer Administering the Government.

21st June, 1940.

An Ordinance to provide machinery for fixing minimum wages, determining normal working hours, and fixing overtime rates in trades where the wage standards are unreasonably low.

[21st June, 1940.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Boards Short title. Ordinance, 1940.

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2-(1) The Governor in Council may, at any time he Fixing thinks fit, by Government Notification published in the Gazette, fix minimum rates of wages for any trade in the certain Colony either generally or in any specified area or district in cases. any case in which he is satisfied that the minimum rates of wages being paid to any persons employed in any such trade are unreasonably low.

Every Notification fixing minimum rates of wages may be varied from time to time or revoked.

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(2) For the purpose of instituting, making, and conduct- Establish- ing any inquiry that may be deemed advisable in connexion tent of with fixing any minimum rates of wages in any trade under Boards for this Ordinance, and for reporting thereon, the Governor may which at any time establish for any trade, or for any branch of Ordinance work in a trade, a Trade Board, consisting of members *pplies. representing employers and members representing workers Edw. 7, c. (in this Ordinance referred to as representative members) in 22, s. 11. equal proportions, and of appointed members, provided that Edw. 7, a. the number of appointed members shall be less than half the 213. total number of representative members.

Where a Trade Board has been established for any Edw. 7, 0. branch of work in a trade, any reference in this Ordinance 3, 1. 2 (9). to the trade for which the Board is established shall be con- strued as a reference to the branch of work in the trade for which the Board has been established.