Pilotage and Mooring (Amendment) Regulations, 1985

L.N. 50 of 1985

PORTS ORDINANCE, 1962

(Ordinance No. XIII of 1962)

Pilotage and Mooring (Amendment) Regulations, 1985

IN exercise of the powers conferred by sections 18A, 25, 26 and 42

of the Ports Ordinance, 1962, the Prime Minister has made the following

regulations:—

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Pilotage and

Mooring (Amendment) Regulations, 1985, and shall be read and construed

with

the

Pilotage

and

Mooring

Regulations,

1975,

hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations shall

be

deemed

to

have

come

into

force on the 18th day of June, 1985.

Immediately after regulation 32A of

the

principal

regulations

there shall be added the following new regulation

(1) The Director shall make from the earnings

of pilots and mooring men a deduction hereinafter referred to

as “the National Insurance Deduction”, of one twelfth of their

basic earnings, or such other fraction of such basic earnings

as may from time to time be equivalent to the rate of contributions

(expressed

as

a

fraction

of

basic

earnings)

payable

by an employed person in accordance with the provisions of the National

Insurance

Act,

1956. Upon

the

National

Insurance

deduction being made, such pilots and mooring men

shall be deemed to have satisfied their obligation in respect

of contributions payable by employed persons under the said

Act, for the period from the basic earnings of which the

National Insurance deduction shall have been made.

(2) The Director shall collect from the persons who in

terms of regulation 32 of these regulations are bound to pay

pilotage and mooring dues, a levy hereinafter referred to as

“the National Insurance Levy” equivalent to one-twelfth (or

such other fraction equivalent to the fraction at which the

National Insurance Deduction is made from the earnings of

pilots and mooring men in accordance with paragraph (1) of

this regulation) of the pilotage and mooring dues due by them.

On the payment of the National Insurance Levy by such

persons their obligation in respect of contributions due by

them as employers of pilots and mooring men in accordance

with section 18A of the Ports Ordinance and in accordance

with the National Insurance Act, 1956, in respect of the period

covered by the dues so paid, shall be satisfied.

(3) The Director may make the National Insurance

Deductions, and collect the National Insurance Levy simul-

taneously with the collection of pilotage and mooring dues

leviable under the provisions of these regulations.”.

3. In paragraph (1) of regulation 33 of the principal regulations

for the words “After deducting such amounts as are payable to the funds

established by these regulations,” there shall be substituted the words

“After deducting the National Insurance Deduction in terms of para-

graph (1) of regulation 32B, and such other amounts as are payable

to the funds established by these regulations.”.

4. Regulation 36 of the principal regulations

shall

be

amended

as follows

(a) for paragraph m thereof there shall

be

substituted

the

following

“(3) The Director shall remit to the Fund

(i)

The

National

Insurance

Deductions

made

in

terms of paragraph (1) of regulation 32B;

(ii) The National Insurance

Levy

Deducted

in

terms

of paragraph (2) of regulation 32B; and

(iii) The levy

collected

in

terms

of

paragraph

(2)

of

this regulation.”;

(b) sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) of paragraph

(8)

thereof

shall

be

renumbered respectively as paragraphs (h) to (g); and

(c) immediately before sub-paragraph (b) of

paragraph

(8)

thereof there shall be added the following new sub-paragraph

“(a) The contributions due in respect of pilots and mooring

men under the National insurance Act by employed persons and

employers;”.

5. Immediately after paragraph (4) of regulation 37 of the principal

regulations there shall be added the following

"(4A) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (4) of this

regulation there shall be paid out of the Pilot Launch Replacement

Fund

(a) the cost of new pilot launches; and

(b) such amounts that shall be transferred from the Pilot

Launch Replacement Fund to the Stabilisation Fund, as the

Minister may direct.”.

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