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24. Any employer who refuses or neglects to comply with

the provisions of Sections 22 and 23 shall be liable on conviction to a fine, not exceeding two hundred dollars.

Truck system.

Penalties.

Employer about to abscond.

PART V.

WAGES.

25. (1) In all agreements or contracts of service concerning

the employment of workers the wages of such workers shall be made payable in legal tender and not otherwise and if in any such agreement or contract the whole or any part of such wages is made payable in any other manner such agreement or contract shall be illegal, null and void.

(2) No employer shall impose in any agreement or contract of service for the employment of any worker any terms as to the place at which or the manner in which any wages paid to the worker are to be expanded and every agreement or contract between an employer and a worker containing such terms shall be illegal, null and void.

(3) Except where otherwise expressly permitted by the provisions of this Ordinance the entire amount of wages earned by or payable to any worker in respect of any work done by him shall be actually paid to him in legal tender and every payment of or on account of any such wages made in any other form shall be illegal, null and void.

(4) very worker shall be entitled to recover in the Courts of the Colony so much of his wages exclusive oI sums lawfully deducted in accordance with the provisions or this Ordinance as shall not have been actually paid to him in legal tender.

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(5) No employer shall make any deductions by way of discount, interest or any other similar charge on account of any advance of wage's made to any worker in anticipation of the regular payment of such wages. (6) Nothing in this section shall be held to apply to any body of persons working on an agreement of cooperation.

(7) Nothing in this section shall render illegal any agreement or contract with a worker for giving to him food, a dwelling place or other allowances or privileges in addition to money wagus as a remuneration for his

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26. Any employer who enters into any agreement or contract or gives any remuneration for services contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance or declared by this Ordinance to be illegal or makes any deductions from the wages of any worker or receives any payment for any work shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

27. (1) Where any worker complains to e Magistrates' Court

or to the Commissioner that he has reasonable grounds for believing that his employer, in order to avoid payment of wages, is about to leave the Colony wherein the place of employment is situated, the Court or the Commissioner may summon such employer and direct him to show cause why he should not be required to give security by bond to remain in the Colony till such wages are paid, and if, after hearing the evidence of such