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EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL 1987

Enclosure No. 4

C457

A BILL

To

Amend the Employment Ordinance.

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Employment (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance 1987.

2.

Section 6 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in subsection (1), by inserting after “(2A)," the following-

Amendment of section 6. (Cap. 57.)

“(2B),”; and

(b) by inserting, after subsection (2A), the following--

3.

"(2B) The period of maternity leave to which a female employee is entitled under section 12 shall not be included under subsection (2) in the length of notice required to terminate a contract of employment.".

Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in subsection (4), by deleting "within the period of 12 weeks before the expected date of her confinement" and substituting the following--

"after her pregnancy has been certified as provided in this section"; and

Amendment of section 12.