1919. 



TRUCK ORDINANCE. 



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5. Except where otherwise permitted by the provisions of this 

 Ordinance, the entire amount of the wages earned by or payable to any 

 labourer in respect of any work done by him shall be actually paid to 

 him in money, and every payment of or on account of any such wages 

 made in any other form shall be illegal, null and void. 



6. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall render illegal an 

 agreement or contract with a labourer for giving to him food, a dwelling 

 place or other allowances or privileges in addition to money wages as a 

 remuneration for his services. 



7. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be held to apply to 

 any body of persons working on an agreement of co-operation. 



8. Every labourer shall be entitled to recover in an action so much 

 of his wages exclusive of sum? lawfully deducted in accordance with 

 the provisions of this Ordinance as shall not have been paid to him in 

 money. 



9. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall extend or be constraed 

 to extend to prevent any employer of any labourer or agent of such 

 employer from making any stoppage or deduction from the wages of 

 such labourer for or in respect of any tools and implements to be used 

 by such labourer in his occupation as such, or for land rent then due 

 and payable. 



10. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be construed so as to 

 render illegal daductions from wages of fines incurrad by labDurers 

 under any contract or regulations governing their employmanb or in 

 respect of negligent work or injury to materials. 



11. Whenever any advance of money or of any of the articles 

 specified in Section 9 hereof is made by an employer to a labourer it 

 shall not be lawful for the employer to make any deduction in respect 

 of such advance on account of poundage, discount, interest, commission 

 or any similar charge. 



12. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be held to apply to 

 any immigra.nt under indenture. 



13. If any employer or his agent contravenes any of the foregoing 

 provisions of this Ordinance, such employer or agent, as the case may 

 be, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and shall be 

 liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding £5 for the first 

 ofi'ence, to a penalty not exceeding £10 for the second offence, and in 

 case of a third offence such employer or agent shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanour and on conviction thereof shall be punishable by a 

 fine not exceeding £'50. 



14. All offences under this Ordinance punishable on summary 

 conviction shall be prosecuted before a Magistrate in the manner set 

 forth in the Summary Conviction Offences (Procedure) Ordinance, 1918. 



15. This Ordinance shall commence on a day to be fixed by the 

 Governor by proclamation in the Royal Gazette. 



Passed in Council this Twenty-ninth day of November, iu the year 

 of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred an.l eighteen. 



"Wages to be 

 paid entirely 

 in money. 



Remunera- 

 tion other than 

 wa?es. 



Persons work- 

 ing in 

 co-operation. 



Labourer's 

 right to 

 recover. 



Deductions 

 from wages. 



Fines for 

 negligence or 

 injury. 



Interest, 

 discount, etc.,. 

 forbidden. 



Indentured 

 Immigrants. 



Penalties. 



Procedure^ 



Commence- 

 ment. 



J. M. FARFAN, 

 Acting Clerk of the Council. 



