Port Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

L.N. 70 of 2003

PORT WORKERS ORDINANCE

(CAP. 171)

Port Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 2003

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 16 and 17 of the

Port Workers Ordinance. the Minister for Transport and

Communications in consultation with the Malta Maritime Authority

and in concurrence with the Minister of Finance has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these rcgulations is thc POri Workers

(Amendment) Regulations. 2003 and they shaIl be read and construed

as one with the Port Workers Regulations, 1993, hereinafter referred to

as "the principal regulations". and shaIl come into force on such day as

the Minister may by notice prescribe in the Gazette.

For regulation 43 of the principal regulations thcre shaIl be

substituted the foIlowing:-

"43.

(I) A port worker who is a registered port

worker on the date of the coming into force of this regulation,

or subsequently, shaIl receive a gratuity in respect of each

year of service, or part thereof, to be reckoned as from the

4th April 1973.

(2) The Minister, after consultation with the

Committee, may for the purpose of this regulation, authorise

that initial and ycarly amounts be invested with a reputable

Assurance Company for the purpose of the provision of such

gratuities to port workers.

(3) The paymcnt of the said gratuity shaIl bc made by

the Committee in anyone of the following circumslances:-

(i)

to a port worker who reaches retirement age, or

(ii) to a port worker whose registration is cancelled

by the Oi rector, or

(iii)

to the hcirs of a pon workcr who dies whilst

being so registered.".