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Illegal conditions regarding place and manner of spending
Cap. 297, s. 97 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) No employer shall impose in any contract for the employment of any worker any terms as to the place at which,
or the manner in which, or the person with whom, any wages paid to the worker are to be expended, and any such terms in a contract between an employer and a worker shall be illegal, null
(2) Any employer or other person who, directly or indirectly imposes, as a condition of the payment of any wages or advance to a worker or to any member of his family, any order or agreement as to the place or the manner in which or the person with whom any portion of such wages or advance is to be expended, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months.
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