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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 163.-The following bill is published for general

information:-

C.S.O. 3851/30.

[No. 22-18.4.32.—1.]

Short title.

Substitu- tion for Ordinance No. 45 of 1902, s. 12.

Questions respecting wages and wrongful determina- tion of contract to be determined by magis- trate. c.f. Ord. No. 3 of 1890. Repeal of ss. 13, 16, 17, 18 and 21 and

part of

s. 25 of

Ordinance No. 45 of 1902.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Employers and Servants Ordinance,

1902.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the thereof, as advice and consent of the Legislative Council follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Employers and Servants Amendment Ordinance, 1932.

2. Section 12 of the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

:-

(12) Every question between the parties to any contract of service respecting wages, and every question respecting any alleged wrongful determination of any contract of service, shall be heard and determined by a magistrate in a summary manner in accordance with the law regulating procedure before magistrates.

3. Sections 13, 16, 17, 18 and 21 and the last five lines of section 25 of the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902, are repealed.

Objects and Reasons.

The effect of this Ordinance is to delete from the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902, those provisions which applied penal sanctions to labour engagements. The relations of employer and employed are left to be governed by the ordinary law of contract but the summary procedure before a magistrate, in respect of wages and breach of contract, provided by the principal Ordinance, is retained in the new and abbreviated section 12.

C. G. ALABASTER,

April, 1932.

Attorney General.

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