Port Workers (Amendment) RegulaUons,l998

L.N.I87 of 1998

PORT WORKERS ORDINANCE

(CAP. 171)

Port Workers (Amendment) RegulaUons,l998

IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 17 of the Port

Workers Ordinance, the Minister for Transport and Ports, in consultation

with the Malta Maritime A\;Jthority and with the concurrence of the

Minister of Finance and Commerce, has made the following

regulations: -

These regulations may be cited as the Port Workers

(Amendment) Regulations, 1998, and shall be read and construed as

one with the Port Workers Regulations, 1993 (L.N. 90 of 1993),

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

For regulation 43 of the principal regulations, there shall be

substituted the following

43. (1) A port work-eroD reaching the retirement age

of 61 years shall receive a gratuity of Lm250 in respect of

each year of service or part thereof.

(2)

This gratuity'shall also be paid to those port

workers who have since retired and have contributed to the

Pension and Contingency Fund since its introduction in April,

1973. (3) In the case of deceased port workers who have

contributed to the Pension and Contingency Fund, payments

shall be made to their relatives.

(4) This gratuity shall also be paid to those port

workers who are forced to retire on grounds of ill-health or

any other serious reasons to the satisfaction of the Manager,

Port Workers on submission of documentary evidence.

(5) the maximum entitlement to be paid as

retirement gratuity shall not exceed the amount of Lm8{XXJ".