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527 PDFTitle:Family Status Discrimination OrdinanceGazette Number:L.N. 552 of 1997
Section:10Heading:Meaning of employment at establishment in Hong KongVersion Date:21/11/1997


(1) For the purposes of this Ordinance ("the relevant purposes"), employment is to be regarded as being at an establishment in Hong Kong unless the employee does his work wholly or mainly outside Hong Kong.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to-

        (a) employment on board a ship registered in Hong Kong; or
        (b) employment on aircraft or dynamically supported craft registered in Hong Kong and operated by a person who has his principal place of business, or is ordinarily resident, in Hong Kong,
but for the relevant purposes such employment is to be regarded as being at an establishment in Hong Kong unless the employee does his work wholly outside Hong Kong.
(3) In the case of employment on board a ship registered in Hong Kong (except where the employee does his work wholly outside Hong Kong) the ship shall for the relevant purposes be deemed to be the establishment.
(4) Where work is not done at an establishment it shall be treated for the relevant purposes as done at the establishment from which it is done or (where it is not done from any establishment) at the establishment with which it has the closest connection.