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1964 Ed.]

Trade Boards.

[CAP. 63

(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.

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

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

(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 remunera- tion on a time-work basis, in this Ordinance referred to as a guaranteed time-rate;

(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.

5. (1) Where any minimum rate of wages has been fixed by the Governor in Council under this Ordinance, an employer shall, in cases to which the minimum rate is applicable, pay wages to the person employed at not less than the minimum rate clear of all deductions, and if he fails to do so shall be liable on sum- mary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine of five hundred dollars and to a fine of fifty dollars for each day on which the offence is continued after conviction therefor. (Amended, 22 of 1950, Schedule)

general duties of Trade Boards.

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

Application of Cap. 86.

Duties and

powers of Trad Boards with respect to minimum rates of wages. 9 Edw. 7, C. 22, s. 4.

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Penalty for not paying wages in accordance with minimum rate which has been made obligatory, 9 Edw. 7. c. 22, s. 6.