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Breach of contract of service to be
an offence in
certain cases.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 86, ss. 4, 5.
resides or works or happens to be, for the purpose of obtaining or communicating information or of persuading or inducing any person to work or to abstain from working, if they so attend in such numbers or otherwise in such manner as to be calculated to intimidate any person in that house or place, or to obstruct the approach thereto or egress therefrom, or to lead to a breach of the peace; and attending at or near any house or place in such numbers or in such manner as is by this sub-section declared to he unlawful shall be deemed to be a watching or besetting of that house or place within the meaning of sub-section (1).
(3) In this section the expression to intimidate" means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable appre- hension of injury to him or to any member of his family or of violence or damage to any person or property, and the expression injury" includes injury other than physical or material injury, and accordingly the expression “appre- hension of injury" includes an appreltension of boycott, or loss of any kind, or of exposure to hatred, ridicule, or contempt,
6. (1) No person who is employed in the service of the Crown nuder the Government of Hong Kong shall wilfully break an agreement for service under the Crown if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequence of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, wonk, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to hinder or prevent the dis- charge of the functions of the Government,
(2) For the purpose of sub-section (1), and without prejudice to the interpretation of any express term of the agreement other than a term relating to notice, a person who is employed in the service of the Crown shall be deemed to break his agreement for service under the Crown if he absents himself from duty without leave and without having given to the head of his department one month's notice in writing terminating with the last day of a calendar month, or if he wilfully refuses duty, or if he wilfully omits to perform his duty, provided that the pro- visions of this sub-section relating to notice shall not apply to any person who is engaged by the day or who is paid daily.
firm
(3) No person who is employed by any company, or person engaged in the business of supplying electric eurrent or gas to the public, or engaged in maintaining any
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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 electric current or gas, or of the ordinary facili- tios of transport, or of the ordinary telephone or sanitary services.
(1) 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 with the consent of the Governor in Hong Kong Council, no trade union which is established within the trade union Colony shall be affiliated or connected with any trade union not to be under the or other organization which is established outside the
control of any Colony in such a manner as to place the trade union which trade union is established within the Colony, or any of its members, in or other any way or in any matter under the control of the trade organization
outside the union or other organization which is established outside Colony. the Colony.
(2) Any consent of the Governor in Council under the provisions of sub-section (1) may be made retrospective in effect to such date as the Governor in Council shall think fit.
(3) 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,
(4) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his absolute discretion to declare any trade union which in his opinion is so affilmted or connected, and which has not obtained the consent of the Governor in Council to be so
Ordinance No. 8 of 1920.
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