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[No. 22-18.4.32.—1.]

C.S.O. 3851/30.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Employers and Servants Ordinance,

1902.

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

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

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 Section 12 of the Employers and Servants Ordinance, Substitu- 1902, is repealed and the following section is substituted tion for therefor :-

Ordinance No. 45 of 1902, s. 12.

wages and

determina-

(12) Every question between the parties to any contract Questions of service respecting wages, and every question respecting respecting any alleged wrongful determination of any contract of service, wrongful shall be heard and determined by a magistrate in a summary tion of manner in accordance with the law regulating procedure contract 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Sections 13, 16, 17, 18 and 21 and the last five lines of section 25 of the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902, are repealed.

to be determined by magis- trate.

c./. Ord. No. 3 of 1890.

Repeal of 1. 18 and

ss. 13, 16,

21 and part of s. 25 of Ordinance No. 45 of 1902.

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,

Attorney General.

April, 1932.