 <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">

                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              WHEREAS the Minister is satisfied 
                                              that it is expedient to appoint a 
                                              Wages Board in accordance with the 
                                              provisions of this Order:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AND WHEREAS the Minister has 
                                              complied with the requirements of 
                                              section 92 of the Labour Ordinance 
                                              as to the publication of a notice 
                                              of his intention to make this 
                                              order and as to the consideration 
                                              of objections:</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              NOW THEREFORE in exercise of the 
                                              powers conferred upon the Minister 
                                              by section 92 of the Labour 
                                              Ordinance the following Order is 
                                              hereby made:—</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Order 1—Title.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              This Order may be cited as the 
                                              Wages Board (Catering Trade 
                                              Workers) Order, 1958.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              Order 2—Definition of Catering 
                                              Trade Workers.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              In this Order &quot;catering trade 
                                              workers&quot; means those falling 
                                              within the Schedule to this Order.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              Order 3—Catering Trade Workers 
                                              Board Appointed.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              There is hereby appointed a Wages 
                                              Board to be known as the Catering 
                                              Trade Workers Wages Board which 
                                              shall consist of the following 
                                              persons—</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) four persons representing 
                                              employers elected and appointed 
                                              under the provisions of section 93 
                                              of the Labour Ordinance;</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) four persons representing 
                                              employees elected and appointed 
                                              under the provisions of the said 
                                              section 93; and</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) three persons appointed under 
                                              the provisions of section 94 of 
                                              the Labour Ordinance.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              Order 4—Functions of Catering 
                                              Trade Workers Wages Board.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              The functions of the said Wages 
                                              Board shall be—</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) to investigate the 
                                              remuneration and conditions of 
                                              employment of catering trade 
                                              workers and to make 
                                              recommendations to the Minister as 
                                              to the minimum wages to be paid to 
                                              and the conditions of employment 
                                              of catering trade workers;</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) to consider any matter 
                                              referred to the Wages Board by the 
                                              Minister with reference to 
                                              industrial conditions of catering 
                                              trade workers and to report to the 
                                              Minister.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              SCHEDULE</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              DEFINITION OF CATERING TRADE 
                                              WORKERS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              EMPLOYEES IN HOTELS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              1. Persons, other than those whose 
                                              salary or wages exceed £300 per 
                                              annum, employed in Ghana for the 
                                              purpose of the activities carried 
                                              on at any of the following 
                                              establishments, that is to say—</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              any hotel, hostel, catering 
                                              undertaking, restaurant, canteen, 
                                              bar or club, and who are engaged 
                                              on any of the following work, that 
                                              is to say—</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (a) the preparation of food or 
                                              drink;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              (b) the service of food or drink;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) work incidental to such 
                                              preparation or service;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (d) work connected with the 
                                              provision of living accommodation;</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (e) work in connection with any 
                                              retail sale of goods on premises 
                                              where the main activity is either 
                                              the supply of food or drink for 
                                              immediate consumption or the 
                                              provision of living accommodation 
                                              for guests or lodgers or partly 
                                              the supply of food or drink as 
                                              aforesaid and partly the provision 
                                              of living accommodation as 
                                              aforesaid;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (f) transport work;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              (g) work performed at any office 
                                              or at any store or warehouse or 
                                              similar place or at any garage or 
                                              stable or similar place;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (h) any work other than that 
                                              specified in sub-paragraphs (a) to 
                                              (g) hereof performed on or about 
                                              the premises or place where food 
                                              or drink is prepared or served or 
                                              where living accommodation is 
                                              provided, including work in 
                                              connection with any service or 
                                              amenity provided on or about such 
                                              premises or place.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              COOKS AND STEWARDS IN HOSPITALS, 
                                              INSTITUTIONS AND EDUCATIONAL 
                                              ESTABLISHMENTS</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              2. Persons, other than those whose 
                                              salary or wages exceed £300 per 
                                              annum, employed in Ghana for the 
                                              purpose of activities carried on 
                                              at any of the following 
                                              establishments, that is to say—</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">(i) 
                                              any hospital, nursing home or 
                                              convalescent home or similar 
                                              establishment providing 
                                              accommodation for the sick, infirm 
                                              or mentally defective;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (ii) any institution or home where 
                                              living accommodation is provided 
                                              for the aged or indigent;</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (iii) any university, college, 
                                              school or similar establishment;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              and who are engaged on any of the 
                                              following work, that is to say—</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              (a) the preparation of food or 
                                              drink;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) the service of food or drink;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (c) work incidental to such 
                                              preparation or service.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              EXCEPTIONS</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              3. The foregoing paragraphs of 
                                              this Schedule shall not apply to 
                                              any of the following workers in 
                                              respect of their employment in any 
                                              of the following circumstances, 
                                              that is to say,—</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">

                                              (a) workers who are employed by 
                                              the same employer partly in a 
                                              catering undertaking and partly in 
                                              some other undertaking, if their 
                                              employment is confined to work 
                                              specified either in sub-paragraph 
                                              (f) or sub-paragraph (g) of 
                                              paragraph 1 of this Schedule or 
                                              partly to work specified in the 
                                              said sub-paragraph(f) and partly 
                                              to work specified in sub-paragraph 
                                              (g), and they are mainly employed 
                                              on work in or in connection with 
                                              that other undertaking;</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              (b) workers who are employed by 
                                              the Crown.</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Made at Accra this 5th day of 
                                              August, 1958.</span></p>

                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              AKO ADJEI</span></p>
                                              <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify">
                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">
                                              Minister of Labour and 
                                              Co-operatives.</span></p>