CO129-565-13 Recruitment of Chinese labourers for employment abroad 1-8-1937 - 30-3-1938 — Page 40

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with these regulations.

Such contract must be signed

by both parties and forwarded to the Consul for China

at that place for transmission to the Overseas Affairs

Committee for approval.

(15) The terms of the contract shall be observed by both

the employer and labourer.

Where a subsistence allowance is given by the employer to the

family of the labourer prior to the latter's departure abroad,

the amount should be mentioned in the contract but shall not be

deducted from the labourer's wages. Distribution of such

allowance to the family of the labourer shall be made by the

recruiting agent under the supervision of officials appointed

by the Overseas Affairs Bureau or by the local authorities.

Mention shall be made in the contract of what fixed percentage of the labourer's monthly wage is to be remitted to his family

through a bank or reliable firm in China appointed by the labourer, and the employer shall make a report in respect of such remittances and forward it to the Consul for China at that

locality for transmission to the Overseas Affairs Committee

for verification.

Those

Labourers, prior to departure abroad, shall be subjected to a physical examination to be conducted by the Overseas Affairs Bureau or local authorities jointly with the employer. who do not possess the qualifications laid down in Article 3 of the Ordinance governing the Emigration of Labourers shall be rejected, and those who have been passed as fit and shipped abroad cannot be sent back as unfit on the journey by the

employer.

The employer shall immediately register the death, through illness or accident, or the departure for another place for any reason, of a labourer, and a report shall be made accordingly and sent to the Consul for China at the locality for trans- mission to the Overseas Affairs Committee for investigation.

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