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Ord. No. 41/79
L.S.
LABOUR TRIBUNAL (AMENDMENT)
HONG KONG
No. 41 OF 1979
I assent.
Short title.
Amendment of section 9.
(Cap. 25.)
Transitional.
JACK CATER. Acting Governor.
21st June, 1979.
An Ordinance to amend the Labour Tribunal Ordinance.
[22nd June, 1979]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and con- sent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1.
This Ordinance may be cited as the Labour Tribunal (Amend- ment) Ordinance 1979.
2. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting the figure "6" in each place where it occurs in subsections (1) and (2) and substituting the following—
"12".
3. (1) If the cause of action in a claim or part of a claim arose more than 6 months before the commencement of this Ordinance, then notwithstanding section 2 the tribunal shall not have jurisdiction under section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance, to inquire into, hear or determine such claim or part of a claim unless the parties to the claim agree or have agreed, in either case. in the manner provided in section 9(1) of the principal Ordinance that the tribunal shall have jurisdiction.
(2) Where the tribunal by reason of subsection (1) has no jurisdic- tion over part of a claim, it may, with the consent of the parties, sever that part of the claim over which it has no jurisdiction and hear and determine the part over which it has jurisdiction.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 20th day of June, 1979.
STEPHEN S. P. TAM,
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.
STEPHEN S. P. TAM,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
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