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9 Edw. 7, c. 22, s. 11 (6).

General

duties of Trade Boards.

9 Edw. 7, c. 22, s. 3.

Application of

Ordinance

No. 13 of 1886.

Duties and powers of Trade

Boards with

respect to minimum rates of

wages.

9 Edw. 7, c. 22, s. 4.

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 21, 1940.

(3) Women shall be eligible as members of Trade Boards as well as men.

(4) The Chairman of a Trade Board shall be the Labour Officer or such other public officer as the Governor may appoint.

(5) All members shall be appointed by the Governor, but the employers and workers may nominate representatives for appointment, subject to the Governor's approval, as representative members.

(6) In order to constitute a meeting of a Trade Board, at least one third of the whole number of the representative members and at least one appointed member must be present.

(7) A Trade Board for any trade shall consider, as occasion requires, any matter referred to them by the Governor with reference to the industrial conditions of the trade, and shall make a report upon the matter to the Governor.

3. The provisions of sections 3 to 10, inclusive, of the Commissioners Powers Ordinance, 1886, shall apply to any Board so appointed.

4. (1) Every Trade Board sball, subject to the provi- sions of this section, recommend a minimum rate of wages for time-work in their trade (in this Ordinance referred to a general minimum time-rate ") and may also recommend for their trade-

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(a) A general minimum rate of wages for piece-work (in this Ordinance referred to as a general minimum piece- rate");

(b) A minimum time-rate (which shall not be higher than the general minimum time-rate) to apply in the case of workers employed on piece-work for the purpose of securing to such workers a minimum rate of remuneration on a time- work basis (in this Ordinance referred to as a guaranteed time-rate ");

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(c) A minimum rate (whether a time-rate or a piece- rate) to apply, in substitution for the minimum rate which would otherwise be applicable, in respect of hours worked by a worker in any week or on any day in excess of the number of hours considered by the Trade Board to be the normal number of hours of work per week or for that day in the trade (in this Ordinance referred to as "an overtime rate");

Any of the minimum rates aforesaid may be fixed so as to apply universally to the trade or so as to apply to any special process in the work of the trade or to any special area, or to any class of workers in the trade, or to any class of workers in any special process or in any special area.

If a Trade Board report to the Governor that it is impracticable in any case to fix a general minimum time-rate in accordance with this section, the Governor may so far as respects that case relieve the Trade Board of their duty.

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