608 MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS 



(n) Penal Enactments. Any arbitrary violation of the 

 labour contract is punished on the part of the employer 

 with a fine and on the part of the employed with a fine 

 or deprivation of liberty, whilst the latter is further 

 threatened with punishment on account of opposition, 

 insulting or threatening an employer or his staff, dis- 

 turbance of the peace, excessive laziness, inciting to 

 desertion or to refusing to work, fighting, drunkenness 

 and such like offences against good order. 



Finally, punishment is also threatened for encourag- 

 ing the non-iulfilment of labour contracts or the 

 favouring thereof by housing, or taking into service any 

 labourer who is not free from service obligations towards 

 others, whilst any labourer found outside the estate 

 without permission and without lawful reason is liable 

 to be taken back to such estate, if necessary by force. 



B. Ordinance regulating the labour conditions as 



between employers and employed who have made 



labour contracts on a basis differing from that 



provided in the Coolie Ordinance (Official Gazette, 



- 1911, No. 



(1) Object of the Ordinance. In the event of employers 

 in the Outer Possessions taking into their service 

 labourers not belonging to the native population of the 

 Government division in which the estate is situated, on 

 a different basis from that provided in the coolie ordin- 

 ances, they can only do so in conformity with the 

 provisions of the second section of the ordinance 

 published in the Official Gazette, 1911, No. 540. 



(2) Labour Contracts. Contracts to be made with 

 labourers in conformity with these provisions are not 

 subject to specified forms and may be made either ver- 

 bally or in writing, except when the labourers have been 

 recruited in Java on the basis of the recruiting ordinance 

 (see under C. p. 6n), in which case the contracts must 

 be written and drawn up in conformity with a specified 

 form. Re-engagement contracts in the Outer Posses- 

 sions with such labourers recruited in Java may, if 

 desired, be made verbally. 



