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C 72 ORDER IN COUNCIL No.

54 of 1953.

MADE UNDER 1942, THE LABOUR ORDINANCE, '(No.

2 of 1942).

UNDER SECTlON 8 (1) OF THE LABOUR ORDINANCE, 1942, IT -.

IS HEREBY ORDERED BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL AS FOLLOWS:- 1.This Order may be cited as the Minimum Wages (Georgetown Cinema Employees) Order, l!J5J.
and New Amsterdam 2.In this Order- "cashier" "clerical means a person employed in a cinema to sell tickets; assistant" means a person wholly c,r mainl y employed in a hi correspondence and the keeping of books; cinema to assist "cinema" means any place where exhibitions of a public nature are given of pictures or other optical effects by means e,f a cinemato­ graph or similar apparatus; "constable" means a constable or person employed by the employer order or to watch over bicycles or other property of to preserve patrons "employee" of a cinema; means any person employed in a cinema; "First Run Cinema" means a cinema which usually exhibits motion pictures for the first time either in Georgetown Amsterdam· "Second Run Ci�1ema'' means a cinema which usually reie&sed they have been generally motion exhibits and at a reduced ~ or in New pictures after price of admission; staff" includes "general in a cinema; ushers, ticket collectors, and janitors employed "normal hours" means the maximum number of hours which may normally dance with the Hours of Work (Georgetown dam Cinema Employees) be worked by a person employed in a cinema in accor­ and New Amster­ 1953'\ Regulations, means a person employed in a cinema to operate a "operator" machine.
projecting 3.

Subject to the provisions of this Order, the minimum rate of wage to be paid to an employee shall be as prescrjbed in the Schedule to this Order.

4.An employee described in the first column of the Schedule, who works in excess of the normal hours, shall be paid for every hour or part thereof but for this Order, so worked, at one and one half times the rate at wl1ich he would, have been paid.
5.This Order shall apply- (a)to the city of Georgetown as defined in section 4 of the Georgetown Town Council one mile of the boundaries thereof; Ordinance and to the area within (b)to the town of New Amsterdam as defined in section 6 of the New Amsterdam Town Council Ordinance, 194:J.

6.This Order shall come into operatron on the twenty-thir d day of July, 1953. ,:,No.

9 of 1953.

SCHEDULE.


Category o:[ Employee Minimum Rate of Wage First Run Cinema Second Run Cinema C 73 Operators First Seconc Third Relier Staff General Under 18 years 18 yea1 s and over C';lshiers Under 18 years 18 yesr� a·:1d over $17.50 p€1' week $!4.00 per week $).3.00 per week .32c.

per hour $14.00 per week.

$13.00 per week.

$ 0.00 per week $10.00 per week $ 8.00 per week.

$13.00 per week.

$ 8.00 per week $]3.00 per week $ 6.00 per week.

$ 6.00 p,,r week.
$ 6.00 p,,r week.

2\ssistanis Clerical Under 18 years 18 yeflrs a:1d O\'er s; t1.oo per week $13.00 per week $ 9.0Q per week.

$13.00 per ,veek.

Con�tahle $13.00 per week $13.00 rer week.

Made in Co'llncil this 14th day of .hily, 1953.

M.S.

PORCHER, Clerk to the Executiv e Council.

(M.P.

56/12/11).