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TTO-1900-R-62411
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Title_of_text
Foreign Labour Contracts Act (Cap. 88:11)
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Trinidad and Tobago
Subjects (Classification)
Elimination of forced labour
Adopted on (Date of text)
1900-02-10
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Original title
Foreign Labour Contracts Ordinance (No. 8 of 1900).
Abstract/Citation
Prohibits any employer, or any person acting as agent or attorney for or on behalf of any employer, without the leave in writing of the Governor first obtained, to hire, engage, or induce any person to leave the Colony, or to send or take away any person therefrom, for the purpose of being employed by any such employer as a labourer in any foreign country. Also prohibits aiding and abetting of such activity.
Repealing Text region
Repealing text(s)
2022-03-21 (TTO-2022-L-113080)
Foreign Labour Contracts (Repeal) Act, 2022 (Act No. 4 of 2022).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
Ministry of Attorney General and Legal Affairs
Country
Trinidad and Tobago
URL
http://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/
File
TTO62411.pdf (PDF of unofficial consolidated version to 31/12/2015)
Serial region
Serial title
Separate copy
Page range
7 p.