1964_LABOUR_RELATIONS_ORDINANCE — Page 4

1975 Ed.]

Labour Relations

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CHAPTER 55

LABOUR RELATIONS

To provide for improvement of labour-management relations and the settlement of trade disputes and matters incidental thereto.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

[1st August, 1975.]

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Labour Relations Ordinance.

(2) Part V shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor in Council by notice in the Gazette.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires----

"arbitration" means arbitration in a trade dispute under Part III;

"arbitration tribunal" means an arbitration tribunal appointed under section 12;

"board of inquiry" means a board of inquiry appointed under section 22;

"Commissioner" means the Commissioner for Labour;

"conciliation" means a discussion or action initiated or undertaken by a conciliation officer to assist the parties to a trade dispute to reach a settlement of the trade dispute;

"conciliation officer" means an officer of the Labour Relations Division of the Labour Department who is authorized by the Commissioner under section 3(c) to initiate or undertake conciliation;

"employee" means any person who has entered into or works under (or, in the case of a contract which has been terminated, worked under) a contract with an employer, whether the contract is by way of manual labour, clerical work or otherwise, is express or implied, oral or in writing, and whether it is a contract of service or apprenticeship or a contract personally to execute any work or labour;

"employer" means the person by whom an employee is (or, in a case where the employment has ceased, was) employed;

"party" means a party to a trade dispute;

"special conciliation" means a discussion or action initiated or undertaken by a special conciliation officer to assist the parties to a trade dispute to reach a settlement of the trade dispute;

Originally $5 of 1973.

92 of 1975.

Short title and commencement.

Interpretation.