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HONG KONG

LEGAL REPORT

Enclosure No 2

THE LABOUR TRIBUNAL (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1974

(No. 29 of 1974)

This Ordinance amends the Labour Tribunal Ordinance in three main respects

(a)

(b)

to provide that leave to appeal must be obtained as a prerequisite to an appeal against an award, order or determination by a presiding officer;

to empower a presiding officer to punish for contempt; and

(c) to put the principal Ordinance on a permanent footing.

The other amendments are consequential upon the above amendments.

2. Before His Excellency the Governor assented to the Bill in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I advised that he could properly do so.

10 June, 1974.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

HONG KONG,

oblem

Attorney General.