SAINT VINCENT. 2


 No. of 1951.





 BILL FOR

AN ORDINANCE to provide an arbitration tribunal for the
 settlement of disputes in Public Utility Undertakings and in
 Public Health, Hospital and Sanitary Services.

 [ On Proclamation. I

 Enacted by the Legislature of Saint Vincent.

 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Utility
Undertakings and Public Health Services Arbitration Ordinance,
1951. It shall apply to trade disputes in any of those Services
rendered by whomsoever to the public which are particularized in
the Schedule to this Ordinance and in any others to which the
Governor by notice in the Gazette shall declare that the
Ordinance shall apply.

 2. In this Ordinance unless the contrary intention .appears
the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively
assigned to them, that is to say-
 lockout" means the closing of a place of employment, or the
 suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to
 continue to employ any number of persons employed by
 him in consequence of a dispute, done with a view to
 compelling those persons, or to aid another employer in
 compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or
 conditions of or affecting employment;
 organisation" means an organisation representative of
 employers or an organization representive of workers as
 the case may be;


Short title and
application.





Interpretation.