Short Title. 



Interpreta- 

 tion. 



Agreements to 

 pay wages 

 otherwise than 

 in money 

 illegal. 



Agreements as 

 to place, 

 maimer, etc. 

 of spending 

 wages illegal. 



104 TBIA'IDAD AND TOBAGO BULLETIN. \XVIIL 2. 



AGEICULTUBAL LEGISLATION. 



TRUCK ORDINANCE 1918. 



TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. 



No. 34.-1918. 



LL.S.] 



I ASSE^'T, 



J. E. CHANCELLOR, 



Governor, 



20th December, 1918. 



AN ORDINANCE to prohibit the payment of wages otherwise than 



in money. 



[By Proclamation.] 



Be it enacted by the Governor of Trhiidad and Tobago with the 

 advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof as follows : — 



1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Truck Ordinance, 1918. 



2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires: 



" Employer " includes any master, manager, foreman, clerk or 

 other person engaged in the hiring, employment or superin- 

 tendence of the service work or labour of any labourer within 

 the meaning of this Ordinance ; 



" Labourer " means any person employed for wages in work of 

 any kind, and whether under or above the age of 21 years, 

 but does not include domestic servants. 



" Money " means coin of the realm current in the Colony, and 

 includes Government Currency notes and the notes of any 

 banking corporation carrying on business in the Colony ; 



3. In every agreement or contract for the hiring of any labourer or 

 for the performance by any such labourer of anj' work within the Colony, 

 except as otherwise provided in this Ordinance, the wages of such 

 labourer shall be made payable in money and not otherwise, and if in 

 any such agreement or contract the whole or any part of such wages 

 shall be made payable in any other manner, such agreement or contract 

 shall be illegal, null and void. 



4. No employer shall directly or indirectly by himself or his agent, 

 impose as a condition, express or implied, in any agreement or contract 

 for the employment of any labourer any terms as to the place or the 

 manner in which, or the person with whom, any wage or portion of 

 wages paid to the labourer are or is to be expended, and every agree- 

 ment or contract between an einployer and a labourer wherein any such 

 terms are expressed or implied shall be illegal, null and void. 



