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(2) If on any day the employee is, for the hole or part
of the day
(a) incapable of work in consequence of sickness or injury;
(b) absent from work otherwise then of his own volition;
(c) absent from work in circumstances such that, by law,
arrangerent or custom, he is regarded as continuing in the employment of his employer for all or any purposes,
then, save as provided in paragraph 4, that day shall count as a
day on which he has worked.
4.
Where an employee is absent from work for the whole or
part of any day
(a) because of a strike in which he takes part, or
(b) because of a lock-out by his employer,
that day shall not count as a day on which he has worked, but the continuity of his period of employment shall not be treated as
broken by any such absence.
5.
If a trade, business or undertaking is transferred from one person to another, the period of employment of an employec in the trade, business or undertaking at the time of the transfer shall count as a period of employment with the tran ferce, and the transfor shall not break the continuity of the period of
exployment.
6.
For the purposes of this Schedule (but not for any other
purposes)
(a) any reference to days on which an employce has worked
shall mean drys on which he has worked for his employer whether or not the days were worked under the same or another contract of service with that employer and whether or not they were consecutive days; and
7.
(b) an exployeu shall be treated as having worked for an employer on any day on which the employee worked for that employer on not less than six hours, whether or
not continuously.
In this Schedule, unless the context otherwise requires "lock-out" and "strike", respectively, have the meanings assigned
to them in the Trade Unions Registration Ordinance;
"week" means a week ending with Saturday.
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