242 Truck

• Author: Ralph Hone
• Pages: #5

CHAPTER 242.

TRUCK.

AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF WORKMEN IN THE COLONY.

4 of 1907.

[8th July 1907.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Truck Act.

   Short title.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'workman' means any person engaged in manual labour in any factory or premises, room or place in which or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which any manual labour is exercised by way -of trade or for purposes of gain, but does not include a menial or domestic servant or an apprentice.

3. In any contract of service hereafter to be made in the Colony for the hiring of any workman for the performance of any labour within the Colony the wages of such workman shall be made payable and be paid in the current coin of the Colony and not otherwise:

   Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to prevent or render invalid any contract for the payment, or any actual payment, to such workman as aforesaid of the whole or any part of his wages, in drafts or orders for the payment of money to the bearer on demand, drawn upon any person lawfully carrying on the business of a banker in the Colony, if...