Port Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

L.N. 135 of 2017

PORT WORKERS ORDINANCE

(CAP. 171)

Port Workers (Amendment) Regulations, 2017

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

Workers Ordinance, the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, in

consultation with the Authority for Transport in Malta, has made the

following regulations

The title of these regulations is the Port Workers

(Amendment) Regulations, 2017 and they shall be read and construed

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

"the principal regulations".

For the provisos in regulation 14 of the principal

regulations there shall be substituted the following

"Provided that this regulation shall not apply to those port

workers who died or die through a fatal accident on the place of

work during the performance of their duties. Such port workers

shall be replaced by a son or daughter subject to the provisions

of these regulations

Provided further that port workers who prior to the 10 th

day of June, 1975 were licensed to work in the general cargo

stevedores or in the lightermen or in the port labourers section,

shall continue to be replaced by a son or daughter or brother or

sister, subject to the provisions of these regulations

Provided further that port workers who were so licensed as

on the 23 rd day of October, 1992, or during the period between

October 2004 and October 2017, shall be replaced by a son or

daughter subject to the provisions of these regulations, unless

this eligibility has already been availed of.".

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