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Repeal of Industria! Employment (Holidays with Pay and Sick- ness Allow-

ance) Ordinance.

(Cap. 333.)

Consequential amendments. (16 of 1972)

(Cap. 341)

Transitional, (Dap. 303)

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8. (1) With effect from the 1st July 1973, sections 7, 8 and II and subsection (2) of section 10 of the Industrial Employment (Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance shall be repealed and section 9 thereof shall have effect as if the references therein to sickness allowance were omitted.

(2) With effect from the 1st January 1974, the Industrial Em- ployment (Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance shall be repealed.

9. (1) The Schedule to the Labour Tribunal Ordinance 1972 is amended in paragraph 1(8) by deleting "or the Industrial Employment (Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordin- ance".

(2) Section 2 of the Medical Clinics Ordinance is amended in the definition of "clinic" in paragraph (f) by deleting "for the purposes of section 8 of the Industrial Employment (Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance" and substituting the following-

"under section 21B of the Employment Ordinance".

10. (1) An employee to whom the Industrial Employment (Holidays with Pay and Sickness Allowance) Ordinance applied shall, on the 1st July 1973, be entitled under this Ordinance to twelve paid sickness days less the number of days during the period of six months before that date for which he received sick- ness allowance under that Ordinance.

(2) In the case of a contract of employment existing at the 1st July 1973 any period of employment next preceding that date shall be taken into account for the purposes of ascertaining under section 21A(1) of the principal Ordinance whether or not an employee has been employed under a continuous contract for a period of three months.

(3) In the case of a contract of employment existing at the 1st January 1974 any period of employment next preceding that date shall be taken into account for the purposes of ascertaining under section 21H of the principal Ordinance whether or not an employee has been employed under a continuous contract for a period of three months.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 23rd day of May, 1973.

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This printed impression has been carefully compared

by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.