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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.

Hongkong,

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19 JAN 03503

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the December 2002.

Report on Ordinance No. 45 of 190.2.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Employers

and Servants

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to

the Governor's Instructions.

This Bill is designed to remedy dofeets in the Law of Master and Servant as it exists in Hongkong.

Much iner av nience has been experienced by, and loss entailed upon, employers by servants after engagement refusing to enter upon service or having entered thereon leaving their employers without notice; abscuting them- selves without leave; carelessly or negligently performing their work bohaving insolently, or otherwise misconduct- ing themselves during the period of service: while employ- ers have boon without any practical remedy.

This Bill supplies the needed remedy by affording em- ployers a summary means of euforeing a contract of service while it safeguards servants in respect of their wages, und rights generally thereunder.

Hemps. Desurd. Bu Kelu

Attorney General.