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6.—(1) No person who is employed in the service of Breach of the Crown under the Government of Hong Kong shall contract of wilfully break a contract of service with the Crown if he service to be knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the probable certain cases. consequence of his so doing, either alone or in combina- tion with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordi- 38 & 39 Vict.. c. 86, ss. 4, 5 nary measures, be to hinder or prevent the discharge of the functions of the Government.

(2) No person who is employed by any company, firm or person engaged in the business of supplying clectric current or gas to the public, or engaged in maintaining any public tramway, bus service, or public ferry, or engaged in maintaining any telephone or sanitary service, shall wilfully break a contract of service with such company, firm or person as aforesaid, if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequence of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to deprive the inhabitants of the Colony, or a substantial number of them, wholly or to a great extent, of their supply of water or electric current or gas, or of the ordinary facilities of transport, or of the ordinary telephone or sanitary services.

(3) No person shall wilfully break any contract of service if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to endanger human life, or to cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether movable or immovable, to destruction or serious injury.

7-(1) Except under and in accordance with the per- Hong Kong mission of the Governor in Council, no trade union which trade union is established within the Colony shall be affiliated or con- not to be nected with any trade union or other organization which is under the

control of any established outside the Colony in such a manner as to place trade union the trade union which is established within the Colony, or or other any of its members, in any way or in any matter under the organization control of the trade union or other organization which is outside the

Colony. established outside the Colony,

(2) Every trade union so affiliated or connected which has not obtained the consent of the Governor in Council to be so affiliated or connected, or from which any such consent has been withdrawn, shall be deemed to be an unlawful society within the meaning and for all the pur- pose of the Societies Ordinance, 1920.

Ordinance No. 8 of 1920.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his absolute discretion to declare any trade union which in his opinion is so affiliated or connected, and which has not obtained the consent of the Governor in Council to be so affiliated or connected, or from which any such consent has been withdrawn, to be an unlawful society within the meaning and for all the purposes of the Societies Ordi- Ordinance nance, 1920.

(4) Without prejudice to any other method of proof, a trade union shall for the purposes of sub-section (1) be deemed to be established within the Colony-

(a) if it maintains, either continuously or from time to time, any office or any other premises within the Colony;

(b) if it maintains, either continuously or from time

to time, any officer within the Colony;

(c) if a sign board bearing its name is displayed at any place in the Colony, whether public or private, unless it is proved that such sign board was so displayed without the knowledge of any officer of such trade union; or

(d) if any document is found in the Colony which purports or appears to be a direction or notice on

No. 8 of 1920.

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