Maximum duration of contracts

(1) The maximum period of service that may be stipulated in any contract for the employment of a worker not involving in the opinion of the Commissioner a long and expensive journey by land, air or water shall be one year if the worker is not accompanied by his family, Provided that this period may be extended to two years if the worker is accompanied by his family. (2) If the employment of any worker involves in the opinion of the Commissioner a long and expensive journey by land, air or water the maximum period may be extended to two years, or if the worker is accompanied by his family, to three years. (3) The Commissioner may, after consultation with any employers’ and workers’ organisations, representative of the interests concerned, exclude from the application of this section contracts entered into between employers and workers whose freedom of choice in employment is satisfactorily safeguarded; such exclusion may apply generally, or to the workers in any specified industry or undertaking or to special groups of