TNAG-0091-FCO40-127-Social-welfare-working-conditions-in-Hong-Kong-1968 — Page 62

Short title.

Interpre- tation.

D

CONFIDENTIAL

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A BILL

To

Repeal and re-enact with certain amendments the Employer and Servants Ordinance, to provide for the protection or the weges of employees, to regulate employment agencie, and for Latters connected therewith; and to make conso uential a mendments to the Contracts for Overseas Employmer: Ordinance.

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1968.

PART I.

Preliminary.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Employment Ordinance

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise

requires -

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Labour;

"contract of service" means any agreement. whether in writing

or oral, express or implied, whereby one person agrees to employ another and that other agrees to servo his employer

as an employee;

"employee" means a person to whom, by virtue of section 3,

this Ordinance applies;

"employer" means any person who has entered into a contract of service to employ any other person as an employee and includes the duly authorized agent, manager or factor of

such first mentioned person;

"wage period" means the period in respect of which wages are

payable under a contract of service;

"wages" means all remuneration or earnings however designated

or calculated, capable of being expressed in terms of money including allowances payable to an employee in respect of work done under his contract of service, but does not

include

(a) the value of any house accommodation, supply of food,

fuel, light, water, medical attendance;

(b) any contribution paid by the employer on his own

account to any pension fund or provident fund;

(c) any travelling allowance or the value of any

travelling

CONFIDENTIAL