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Return of workers

Cap. 297, s. 76 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Where any recruited person– (a) becomes incapacitated through sickness or accident during the journey to the place of employment; or (b) on arrival at the place of employment is not employed for any reason for which he is not responsible, or is found on examination to be physically unfit to perform the work contemplated by his contract of service; or (c) after arrival at the place of employment is found after due inquiry by a labour officer to have been recruited by misrepresentation or mistake, the employer shall at his own expense provide such person and the family of such person with reasonable means of transport to the place of engagement. (2) Where any recruited person dies during the journey to the place of employment or during the period of his term of service, the employer shall at his own expense provide the family of such person with reasonable means of transport to the place of engagement.

Amended by: 20 of 1964

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