(1) An employer to whom a Minimum Wage Order applies shall, as from the making of the Minimum Wage Order, pay to the employees wages which are not less than the minimum wage prescribed in the Minimum Wage Order, and the employee shall enjoy such other terms and conditions of employment no less favourable than the terms and conditions of employment prescribed in the Minimum Wage Order, notwithstanding that the remuneration or terms and conditions of employment of the employee may be provided for in a collective agreement or in a contract of employment.
(2) Where at the commencement of a Minimum Wage Order under which scope an employee falls, the wages and other terms and conditions of employment of an employee are not subject to a collective agreement, the Minimum Wage Order shall take effect in respect of that employee as soon as it comes into force.