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EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) (NO. 3)

Ord. No. 67/74

A441

there were substituted the words "it would have been unreasonable on the part of the employee to refuse".

13. In relation to the making of a claim by a personal representative of a deceased employee who dies before the end of the period of one month beginning with the relevant date, section 31N shall apply with the substitution, for the words "one month", of the words "six months”.

14. Subject to this Part of this Schedule, in relation to an employee who has died, any reference in Part VA of this Ordinance to—

(a) the doing of anything by, or in relation to, an employee shall be construed as including a reference to the doing of that thing by, or in relation to, any personal representative of the deceased employee; and

(b) a thing required or authorized to be done by, or in relation to, an employee shall be construed as including a reference to any- thing which, in accordance with Part VA of this Ordinance as modified by this Part of this Schedule (including sub-paragraph (a)), is required or authorized to be done by, or in relation to, any personal representative of his.

15. Any right of a personal representative of a deceased employee to a severance payment, where that right had not accrued before the employee's death, shall devolve as if it had accrued before his death.”.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 14th day of August, 1974.

K. H. WHEELER,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

K. H. WHEELER,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

PRINTED AND Published BY R. K. CHENG, ACTING GOVERNMENT PRINTER AT THE GOVERNMENT Press, Java ROAD, HONG KONG