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Person over sixteen may contract.
Contract if verbal to be monthly unless within exceptions.
Determination of monthly contract.
Contract for more than
No. 45 of 1902.
EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS
3. Any person over the age of sixteen years may enter into a contract of service under this Ordinance.
4. In the absence of any agreement in writing to the contrary, every contract of service (except in the case of hire by the day, job, or journey) shall be deemed to be a contract for one month renewable from month to month, and every such contract shall be deemed to be so renewed unless such contract shall be determined in the manner prescribed in section 5.
Every servant under such contract shall, in addition to any service which he may have specially contracted to perform, be deemed to have contracted to perform all such additional light duties as he may reasonably be called upon by his employer to perform.
5. Every such contract may be determined—
(1) by either party thereto giving to the other notice to determine such contract at the termination of one calendar month from the date of such notice; or
(2) at any time without notice by the employer paying to the servant in lieu of such notice the wages, if any, due to him for the time he has served and a further sum of money equal to one month's wages from the date of the determination of such contract.
6. A contract of service for more than one month shall be in writing and shall be executed in the manner hereinafter prescribed to be in writing.
To be executed; servant entitled to duplicate.
7. Every such contract shall be executed in duplicate in the presence of a magistrate, or in the case of any sailor, boatman, or other person engaged for service on any cargo boat or fishing or trading junk before the European police officer in charge of the police station of the district in which such contract is made, who shall before the execution thereof explain to the servant the nature of such contract, and upon the execution thereof shall indorse thereon his certificate that such contract has been duly explained by him to such servant, and thereafter shall deliver such duplicate to such servant.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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Person over sixteen may contract.
Contract if verbal to be monthly unless within exceptions.
Determina- tion of monthly contract.
Contract for. more than
No. 45 of 1902.
EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS.
3. Any person over the age of sixteen years may enter into a contract of service under this Ordinance.
4. In the absence of any agreement in writing to the contrary, every contract of service (except in the case of hire by the day, job, or journey) shall be deemed to be a contract for one month renewable from month to month, and every such contract shall be deemed to be so renewed unless such contract shall be determined in the manner prescribed in section 5.
Every servant under such contract shall, in addition to any service which he may have specially contracted to perform, be deemed to have contracted to perform all such additional light duties as he may reasonably be called upon by his employer to perform.
5. Every such contract may be determined—
(1) by either party thereto giving to the other notice to determine such contract at the termination of one calendar month from the date of such notice; or
(2) at any time without notice by the employer paying to the servant in lieu of such notice the wages, if any, due to him for the time he has served and a further sum of money equal to one month's wages from the date of the determina- tion of such contract.
6. A contract of service for more than one month shall be in writing and shall be executed in the manner hereinafter be in writing. prescribed.
one month to
To be execu-
cate; servant entitled to duplicate.
7. Every such contract shall be executed in duplicate in tod in dupli- the presence of a magistrate, or in the case of any sailor, boatman, or other person engaged for service on any cargo boat or fishing or trading junk before the European police officer in charge of the police station of the district in which such contract is made, who shall before the execution thereof explain to the servant the nature of such contract, and upon the execution thereof shall indorse thereon his certificate that such contract has been duly explained by him to such servant, and thereafter shall deliver such duplicate to such
servant.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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