Employment Ordinance

(1)
A reference in this Ordinance to a certificate or medical certificate issued by
                a registered Chinese medicine
practitioner—
(a)
does not include a certificate or medical certificate so issued before the
                        commencement
＊
of the 2006 Ordinance; and
(b)
does not include a certificate or medical certificate so issued on or after
                    the commencement of the 2006 Ordinance to the
extent—
(i)
that it relates to any period of days or hours which ends before that
                        commencement; or
(ii)
if it relates to any period of days or hours which occurs partly before
                        that commencement, that it relates to such part of the period occurring
                        before that commencement.
(2)
For the purposes of this
section—
(a)
2006
                        Ordinance
(《
2006年條例
》) means
Part 2
of
                    the Certification for Employee Benefits (Chinese Medicine) (Miscellaneous
                    Amendments) Ordinance 2006 (
16 of 2006
);
(b)
a certificate or medical certificate relates to a period of days or hours if
                    the certificate or medical certificate is produced for the purposes
of—
(i)
an employee taking that period of days as maternity leave under Part
                        III or sickness days under Part VII; or
(ii)
having that period of hours counted as hours in which an employee has
                        worked by virtue of
paragraph 3(2
)(
a)
of the
First
                            Schedule
.