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NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN

a clause of thing kind, formerly,

to encounter in an action against an employee

in the Courts will have been explained to him.

Mr. Burn's problem is essentially one that

is faced by all employers who bring foreign

workers to this country they all have to

guarantee repatriation of the workers and, as

he says in his letter, other firms in the same

business as his own do not appear to have found

difficulty in accepting the Hong Kong Government's

requirements in this matter.

Finally, I should like you to know that

I have taken note of Mr. Burn's point that some

clauses in the model contract purport to place

certain duties and responsibilities on

officials in the country in which the contract

is to be performed and that the Ministry of

Labour here have stated that they cannot

particular

co-operate in the manner indicated. I can see

that the inclusion of these model clauses, as

drafted in contracts for employment in the U.K.,

could be a source of confusion and frustration.

I shall be consulting the Governor of Hong Kong

about the possibility of inserting alternative

versions of the model clauses concerned in

contracts for employment in countries where the

local authorities are not willing or able to

I understand that Clause 19, has

co-operate.

already been removed from the most recent

revision of the model contract for this reason.

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