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Wages not to be

at hed.

Exting Ordinances

not affected.

Saving as to existing

contracts

of service

Saving as to seamen's contracts. (Cap. 281.)

Repeal. (Cap. 57.)

Amendment

of specified

cnactment

Second Schedule.

34.

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No order for the attachment of the wages of any

employee shall be made by any court.

35. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed so as to relieve any employer of any duty or liability imposed on him by the provisions of any other enactment or to limit any powers given to any public officer by any such enactment.

36. Save as is otherwise provided herein, all agreements and contracts entered into between any employer and any employee, valid and in force at the commencement of this Ordinance shall continue to be in forco, and, subject to any express conditions contained in any such agrement or contract, the parties thereto shall be subject to and entitled to the benefit of the provisions

of this Ordinance.

37.

Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to pre- judice the application of any of the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts of the United Kingdom, or of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance having reference to the engagement of seamen or agreements between seamen and master of ships.

38. The Employers and Servants Ordinance is repealed.

39. The enactment specified in the first column of the Second Schedule is amended in the manner specified

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in the second column thereof.

1.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Continuous Employment.

[8.9.7

The provisions of this Schedule apply to periods before it comes into effect as they apply to later periods.

2.

Subject to the following provisions, where at any time an employee has been employed under a contract of service over the period of four or more weeks next preceding such time he shall be deemed to have been in continuous erployment during

that period.

3. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 2, no week shall count unless the employee has worked on three days or more in that week, and in determining whether he has worked on any day the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) shall apply.