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must be so declared by the Governor in Council.
This in itself is a safeguard against the
arbitrary and repressive use of these new
provisions. However, the Labour Advisory
Committee was emphatic that it would be wrong
to try to use or adapt the sanctions of
essential services legislation to deal with
wider and more profound unrest of a nature move aþjvørtaŭlu píraft with long
likely to call for the use of emergency powers.
Hong Kong has Emergency Regulations which, it
must be admitted, proved adequate to cope with
the 1967 disturbances.]
8.
The second ċriticism of the Overseas
Labour Adviser, that the penal provisions
should apply to all breaches of contract in
certain circumstances, seems valid to the
extent that the model clauses making it an
offence to break contract in defined circum-
stances are not used in the Hong Kong Bill.
However, it does not seem that this is as much
a conflict of principle as the issue last
discussed. The Labour Advisory Committee them-
selves, when considering this question of the
wider application of these provisions, said
that they would not expect them to be used to
any great extent other than to deal with the
consequences of a localised dispute affecting
a particular group of essential services
workers.
9. The third criticism of the Overseas
Labour Adviser must also be examined.
Certainly in 1961′′, the Secretary of State
recommended the adoption of revised model
/ clauses
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