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TBINIDAD AND TOBAGO BULLETIN. \XVIII. 2. 



LABOUR EXCHANGES ORDINANCE. 

 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. 



Short Title. 



Interpreta- 

 tion. 



Establishment 

 ■ of Labour 

 Exchanges 



Regulations. 



Penalty for 

 making false 



statements, 

 etc 



[L.S.] 



No. 13.-1919. 



I ASSENT, 



W. M. GORDON, 



Acting Governor. 



2nd June, 1919. 



AN ORDINANCE to provide for the establishment of 

 labour exchanges. 



\2nd June, 1919.'] 



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

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



1. This Ordinance mav be cited as the Labour Exchanges Ordinance, 

 1919. 



2. In this Ordinance " labour exchange " means any office or place 

 used for the purposes of collecting and furnishing information, either 

 by the keeping of registers or otherwise, respecting employers who 

 desire to engage workmen and workmen who seek engagement or 

 employment. 



3. The Governor may establish and maintain labour exchanges in 

 such places as he thinks fit, and may appoint managers thereof and 

 such other officers as he may think fit, at such salaries as he with the 

 consent of the Legislative Council may from time to time fix. 



4. The Governor may make regulations with respect to the manage- 

 ment of labour exchanges established under this Ordinance, and 

 such regulations may authorise advances to be made by way of loan 

 towards meeting the expenses of workmen travelling to places where 

 employment has been found for them through a labour exchange. 



Such regulations shall be laid before and be subject to the approval 

 of the Legislative Council, and shall when so approved be published in 

 the Boyal Gazette. 



5. If any person knowingly makes any false statement or false 

 representation to any officer of a labour exchange established under 

 this Ordinance, or to any person acting for or for the purposes of any 

 such labour exchange, for the purpose of obtaining employment or 

 procuring workmen, or for the purpose of preventing any employer 

 from obtaining workmen, or any workman from obtaining employment, 

 that person shall be liable in respect of each offence on summary 

 conviction to a fine not exceeding .£10. 



Passed in Council this Sixteenth day of May, in the year of Our 

 Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. 



J. M. FARFAN, 



Acting Clerh of the Coicncil 



