and there is no way of removing those doubts
except by a prosecution.
The amending Bill would
empower the Governor in Council by notice in the
Gazette to declare a strike or lock-out to be
St- would also
it an
offence to take part
in an illegal strike or lock-ont (only incitement to table part in an offena under
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legulation, as stated by the purpose illegal. The sind intention of the Hong
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Kong Government, is to balance the protection of
the public interest from strikes and lock-outs
of a coergive nature in essential services with
the protection of the interests of those involved
in genuiné trade disputes affecting such
services.
4.4.The replacement of the existing Ordinance
The Colonial
is certainly overdue. In 1960, after his/Labour
Advisory Committee had completed a review of
essential services legislation, the Secretary of
for the Colonce
State commended to colonial territories the
adoption of model legislative provisions to
protect essential services in place of previous
legislation which in many cases had been based
on a 1949 model ordinance. Hong Kong's legisla-
on the 1949 modal
tion was not so based being an amalgam of the
United Kingdom's Trade Disputes Act, 1927
(repealed in 1946) and the Conspiracy and
existima lepration ).
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and no action to
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Protection of Property Act, 1875, The new model
adopt the model legislation was taken Ordinance was not, therefore, adopted.
however
has been the intention of the Hong Kong
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Government for some time to review the general
position in the Colony with regard to essential
services legislation in the light of the Labour Adony
Committee's report. In the proposed Bill, they
purport to
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have that same intention in mind.
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