Employment Ordinance

Where in accordance with any enactment or rule of
law—
(a)
any act on the part of the employer; or
(b)
any event affecting an employer (including, in the case of an individual, his death),
operates so as to terminate a contract under which an employee is employed by him, that act or event shall for the purposes of this Part be treated as a termination of the contract by the employer, if apart from this section it would not constitute a termination of the contract by him.