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FJI-1991-R-22655
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Title_of_text
Sugar Industry (Special Protection) (Amendment) (No.3) Decree 1991. No. 18.
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Fiji
Subjects (Classification)
Freedom of association, collective bargaining and industrial relations; Agriculture workers
Adopted on (Date of text)
1991-05-29
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Regulation, Decree, Ordinance
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
Under this Decree, any person "who does any act or makes any omission which hinders or is calculated to hinder" orderly planting, growing, harvesting, transport or processing of sugar cane is liable to fine or to imprisonment for a term of 14 years. A similar fate awaits anyone who "counsels, invites or encourages" a person to do so (seven years). If the offender is a trade union all its officials and officers will be liable to the prescribed penalties. However, the President suspended this Decree on 12 July 1991 in return for a promise by the Fiji Trade Union Congress to lift the sugar cane harvest boycott and revoke a national strike scheduled for 16 July.
Entry dates region
Date of entry into force
1991-05-29
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Repealing Text region
Repealing text(s)
1997-07-25 (FJI-1997-C-47393)
Constitution Amendment Act (No. 13 of 1997).
Serial region
Serial title
Republic Gazette
Date
1991-05-29
Number
No. 37, Vol. 5
Page range
p. 387-388