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Breach of contract of
service to be an offence in certain cases.
38 & 39 Vict. c. 80, ss. 4; 5.
Hong Kong trade union
not to be
under the
6.—(1) No person who is employed in the service of the Crown under the Government of Hong Kong shall wilfully break a contract of service with the Crown if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequence of his so doing, either alone or in combina- tion with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordi- nary measures, be to hinder or prevent the discharge of the functions of the Government.
(2) No person who is employed by any company, firm or person engaged in the business of supplying clectric current or gas to the public, or engaged in maintaining any public tramway, bus service, or public ferry, or engaged in maintaining any telephone or sanitary service, shall wilfully break a contract of service with such company, firm or person as aforesaid, if he knows.or has reasonable canse to believe that the probable consequence of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to deprive the inhabitants of the Colony, or a substantial number of them, wholly or to a great extent, of their supply of [water or] electric current or gas, or of the ordi- [ ] nary facilities of transport, or of the ordinary telephone or sanitary services.
(3) No person shall wilfully break any contract of service if he knows or has reasonable cause to believe that the probable consequences of his so doing, either alone or in combination with others, would, failing the adoption of extraordinary measures, be to endanger human life, or to cause serious bodily injury, or to expose valuable property whether movable or immovable to destruction or serious injury.
7-(1) Except [under and in accordance with the per- [ ] mission of the Governor in Council, no trade union A with the con- which is established within the Colony shall be affiliated ·sent or connected with any trade nuion or other organization control of any which is established outside the Colony in such a manner as to place the trade union which is established within organization the Colony, or any of its members, in any way or in any matter under the control of the trade union or other organization which is established outside the Colony.
trade union
or other
outside the Colony.
Ordinance
Xo. 8 of 1920.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1920,
(2) Any consent of the Governor in Council under the provisions of sub-section (1) may be made retrospective in effect to such date as the Governor in Council shall think it.
([2]) Every trade union so affiliated or connected which [ ]3 has not obtained the consent of the Governor in Council to be so affiliated or connected, or from which any such consent has been withdrawn, shall be deemed to be an unlawful society within the meaning, and for all the pur- pose of the Societies Ordinance, 1920.
([8]) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council in his absolute discretion to declare any trade union which in his opinion is so affiliated or connceted, and which has not obtained the consent of the Governor in Council to be so affiliated or connected, or from which any such consent has been withdrawn, to be an unlawful society within the meaning and for all the purposes of the Societies Ordi- nance, 1920.
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([4]) Without prejudice to any other method of proof, a [ ]5 trade union shall for the purposes of sub-section (1) be deemed to be established within the Colony→
(a) if it maintaius, either continuously or from time to time, any office or any other premises within the Colony:
(b) if it maintains, either continuously or from time
to time, any officer within the Colony;
(c) if a sign board bearing its name is displayed at any place in the Colony, whether public or private, unless it is proved that such sign board was so
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