Port Labour (Determinations) (Amendment) Order, 1981

L.N. 39 of 1981

PORT WOR.KERS ORD!NANCE, 1962

(ORDINANCE NO. XIV OF 1962)

Port Labour (Determinations) (Amendment) Order, 1981

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 8 of the Port

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

and Telecommunioations has made the following order:-

This order may be cited as the Port Labour (Determinations)

(Amendment) Order, 1981 , and shall be read and construed as one with

the Port Labour (Determinations) Order, 1966, hereinafter referred to

as "the principal order".

The Third Schedu1e to the principal order shall be amended

as follows

(a) for sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 4 thereof there shall

be substituted the following

" (d) it shall not be obligatory for port workers to work

on the thirty-first day of March, Good Friday, the first day of

May, Christmas Day and New Year's Day, on the afternoon

of the twenty-fourth December (Christmas Eve) and after

5 p.m. on the thirty-first December (New Year's Eve) except

for port work which the Director of Ports may authorise in

circumstances which constitute an emergency in respect of any

ship or cargo, or for port work which the Director of Ports

may authorise after consultation with the employers and the

port workers' representatives.

For the purpose of this sub-paragraph, the handling of

baggage to, on or from emigrant ships, the handling of mails

to, on, or from, a vesse1 which is leaving port on any of the

aforesaid days, and the handling of cargo on or from a ship

on fire, shall constitute an emergency for which no consulta­

tion shall be required. ";

(b) for sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph 5 thereof there shall

be substituted the following

" (d) On the thirty-first day of March, Good Friday, the

first day of May, Christmas Day and New Year's Day -

Double the overtime rates payable for Sundays and

Public Holidays."; and

(c) for sub-paragaph (e) of paragaph 5 thereof there shall

be substituted the following

" (e) On the afternoon of the twenty-fourth December

(Christmas Eve) -

Double the overtime rates payable for Saturday

afternoons. ".

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