243 Contracts Of Service
| Author | Ralph Hone |
| Pages | #5 |
CHAPTER 243.
CONTRACTS OF SERVICE.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
SECTION.
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SHORT TITLE.
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INTERPRETATION.
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CONTRACTS OF SERVICE.
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FORMALITIES TO BE OBSERVED IN CONTRACTS.
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DURATION OF CONTRACTS.
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PARTICULARS TO BE SPECIFIED IN CONTRACTS.
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MODE OF PAYMENT.
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APPRENTICESHIP OF FATHERLESS, MOTHERLESS OR ORPHAN CHILDREN TO TRADES.
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THE SAME TO DOMESTIC SERVICE.
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SIGNING OF INDENTURES IN CASE OF ORPHAN CHILDREN WITHOUT GUARDIANS.
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AT WHAT AGE PERSONS MAY APPRENTICE THEMSELVES.
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ASSIGNMENT OF INDENTURES REGULATED.
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ASSIGNMENT TO BE ATTESTED BY JUSTICE.
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APPRENTICE NOT TO BE TAKEN OUT OF COLONY WITHOUT CONSENT.
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PENALTY ON UNLAWFULLY ATTEMPTING TO REMOVE APPRENTICE FROM COLONY.
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PUNISHMENT OF APPRENTICES FOR MISCONDUCT.
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PUNISHMENT FOR DECOYING APPRENTICES.
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PUNISHMENT OF SERVANTS FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT.
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PUNISHMENT OF MASTERS FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT.
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POWER OF MAGISTRATE TO DISSOLVE CONTRACTS.
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ARBITRATION IN CERTAIN CASES.
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THIS ACT NOT TO PREVENT PROCEEDINGS AT LAW.
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CONTRACT OF SERVICE DEFINED.
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EVERY CONTRACT OF SERVICE AS A DOMESTIC TO CONSTITUTE A SERVICE BY THE WEEK UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSED, ETC.
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AD.TuDICATION UNDER THIS ACT A BAR TO ANY FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.
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ACT TO APPLY TO CONTRACTS MADE OUT OF THE COLONY.
CHAPTER 243.
CONTRACTS OF SERVICE.
AN ACT FOR REGULATING THE RELATIVE DUTIES OF MASTERS AND SERVANTS, FOR PROVIDING FOR THE APPRENTICING OF CHILDREN AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
[19th April 1861.] 1. This Act may be cited as The Contracts of Service Act.
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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'contract' and 'contract of service' mean indentures of apprenticeship and the contracts contained therein, and evidenced thereby, as well as contracts of service entered into by servants;
'servant' means any person employed for hire, wages or other remuneration to perform any handicraft, or other bodily labour in agriculture, or industry, or in domestic service, or as a boatman, porter or other occupation in which the labouring population of the Colony have been usually employed.
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No contract of service shall be in force within the Colony for any greater or longer space of time than one month from the date thereof, unless the same shall be reduced into writing with all the formalities hereinafter mentioned and particularly designated.
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No written contract of service shall be valid or binding upon the parties thereto, or be of any force or effect whatsoever, unless it shall be signed with the name, or in case of illiterate persons with the mark, of each of the contracting parties, in the presence of a justice of the peace; nor unless such justice shall subscribe such written contract in attestation of the fact that it was entered into by the parties voluntarily, and with a clear understanding of its meaning and effect.
8 of 1861.
6 of 1862.
5 of 1863.
10 of 1864.
1 of 1943.
16 of 1958.
Short title.
Interpretation.
16 of 1958, s. 2.
1 of 1943, s. 2.
16 of 1958, s. 2.
Contracts of service.
Formalities to be observed in contracts.
Duration of 5. Such written contracts, as aforesaid, shall not contracts, be binding or valid for any greater or longer period than one year from their respective dates, and every such written contract shall expire at the close of the time of service therein stipulated for, without any notice on either side being given.
Particulars to be specified in contracts.
Mode of payment.
Apprenticeship of fatherless, motherless or orphan children to trades.
*6. Every such written contract, as aforesaid, shall specify, as accurately as may be, the general nature of the employment in which the servant is to be engaged; and when any such contract is for work to be performed not by the piece, but by time, it shall also in like manner specify the number of hours of daily labour, and the hours of the day at which such labour is to commence, to be suspended, to...
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