Port Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 1981

L.N. 19 of 1981

PORT WORKERS ORDINANCE, 1962

(ORDINANCE NO. XIV OF 1962)

Port Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 1981

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 of the Port

Workers Ordinance, 1962, the Minister of Development, Energy, Port

and Telecommunications has made the following regulations:-

( 1 ) These regu1ations may be cited as the Port Workers

(Amendment) Regu1ations, 1981. and shall be read and construed as

one with the Port Workers Regu1ations, 1966, hereinafter referred to as

"the principal regu1ations".

(2) These regulations, with the exception of regulation 7,

shall be deemed to have come into force on the 18th July, 1980, while

regu1ation 7 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1 5th Octo­

ber, 1977.

Regulation 5 of the principal regulations shall be amended as

(1)

for the proviso to paragraph (7) there of there shall be

substituted the folIowing

"Provided that

such son applies for registration within one month

(a)

from the death or retirement of his father, as the case may be,

and thereafter renews such registration as provided for in this

regulation;

the registration of such son in the Prospective Port

(b)

Workers Register shalI not entit1e him to compete for the fill­

ing of vacancies until such time as he reaches eighteen years

of age and, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (5) of

this regu1ation he shalI, for the purpose of the order in which

vacancies are filled, be placed after the person then appearing

1ast on that Register.".

in paragraph (9) thereof -

(2)

(a)

for the words "of these regulations:" there shall be

substituted the words "of these regulations."; and

(b)

the proviso there to shall be deleted.

For regulation 24 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the folIowing

( l ) Port workers who on 01' after the fourth day

of April, 1973, but not later than the fourth day of January,

1980, have attained the retiring age shall have their registra­

tion cancelled by the Director and thereupon shall be paid

a pension or a gratuity under the conditions and at the rates

specified in regulation 27 of, and in Schedule 4 to, these

regulations.

(2) Port workers who on 01' after the fifth day of

January, 1980, have attained the retiring age shall have their

registration cancelled by the Director bnt retaining their pen­

sion rights under the National Insurance Act, 1956.".

Amends

4. For paragraph (3) of regulation 25 of the principal regulations

regulation 25

there shall be substituted the following

of the principal

regulations.

"(3) The provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regula­

tion shall not apply to a port worker

(a) who retired from port work during the five year

period ended on the fourth day of April. 1973, and who during

that same period was replaced by a son or brother;

(b) who has reached the retiring age on or after the fifth

day of January, 1980.".

Am

Immediately after paragraph (2) of regulation 26 of the prin-

5. �� Utl��io;rin��pal

cipal regulations there shall be added the folIowing new paragraphs

reguJations.

The provisions of sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1) and

"(3)

of sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) of this regulation shall not

apply to port workers who after the twenty-second day of January,

1979, have their licence cancel1ed under the provisions of this regu­

lation, if they reach the retiring age on or after the fifth day of

January, 1980. saving their pension rights under the National

Insurance Act, 1956.

(4) Saving the provisions of paragraph (3) of this regulation,

a person who is registered as a port worker after the thirtieth day of

May, 1978, shall not be eligible to receive a pension as specified in

paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regulation if he does not satisfy the

requirements !aid down in regulation 27 of these regulations.".

Amends

6. In regulation 27 of the principal regulations. for the words

regulation 27

"Notwithstanding the provisions of regulations 24 and 26, and saving

of the principal

the provision of regulation 29, of these regulations" there shall be sub­

regulations.

stituted the words "Saving the provision of regulation 29 of these regu­

lations -".

Amends

7. ScheduIe 4 of the principal regulations shall be amended as fol-

Schedule 4

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regulations.

(a)

for paragraph l thereof there shalI be substituted the fol-

lowing

The fulI pension rate shall be :E580 per man per

"1.

annum.";

(b) in paragraph 2 thereof, for all the words after "shown in

Column 2 thereof" there shall be substituted the following

Column 2

"Column 1

Period of Absence

Pension Rate

(a)

Between 4 and 5 years

:E116 per man per annum

(b)

f232 per man per annum

Between 3 and 4 years

(c)

f348 per man per annum

Between 2 and 3 years

(d)

:E464 per man per annum

Between 1 and 2 years

:E580 per man per annum";

(e)

Less than 1 year

(c) in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph 6 thereof for all the

words after "shown in Column 2 thereof" there shall be substituted

the following

Column 2

"Column 1

Pension Rate

Period of Absence

;[116 per man per annum

Between 4 and 5 years

(a)

;[232 per man per annum

Between 3 and 4 years

(b)

f348 per man per annum

(c)

Between 2 and 3 years

;[464 per man per annum

Between 1 and 2 years

(d)

Less than l year

(e)

;[580 per man per annum"; and

(d) in paragraph 7 thereof for all the words after "as shown

in Column 2 there of" there shall be substituted the following

"Column 1

Column 2

Income

Pension Rate

Between ;[200 and ;[400

f377

Earned less than ;[200

or no

income at all

;[250.".

8. The Port Workers (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1980 are

hereby revoked.

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