§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTONTo ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether Section 33 (2) of the Transvaal Ordinance, which casts on the employer the liability for the cost of repatriating the wife and family of the indentured labourer at the end of his indenture, has now been so amended by Regulation No. 34 (Cd. 1986, p. 6), that the employer will only be liable for the expense of returning the wife and children of the labourer in case the labourer dies, or if any of the events detailed in Clauses 25, 26, and 27 of the Ordinance happen during the period of his service which render him liable to be repatriated.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) There is nothing in Regulation 34 which can override the requirements of the section of the Ordinance referred to.