PROCEDURE OF THE LABOUR BOARD REGULATIONS

PROCEDURE OF THE LABOUR BOARD

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.10

PROCEDURE OF THE LABOUR BOARD

REGULATIONS

10th July, 1953

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 386 of 1953, as amended by Emergency

Ordinance VI of 1958 and Ordinance XXV of 1962.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Procedure of the

Labour Board Regulations.

(2) The definitions set out in article 2 of the Employment and

Industrial Relations Act (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") are

applicable to these Regulations.

Notice of a meeting of the Labour Board appointed as

provided in the Act shall be deemed to be sufficiently given to a

member of the Board if sent by post to his ordinary or last known

address, but the accidental omission to give notice of a meeting to,

or t he n on -rece ip t by, an y m em ber shal l no t i nv ali dat e th e

proceedings of any meeting.

(a) In order to constitute a meeting of the Board there shall

be present at least one of the members appointed by the

Minister as being independent persons, one of the

members appointed by the Minister as representing the

employers, and one of the members appointed by the

Minister as representing employees.

(b) When more than one independent persons have been

appointed to membership of the Board, the Minister

shall select therefrom and appoint a Deputy Chairman

in addition to the Chairman appointed in terms of

article 6(2) of the Act.

The Chairman and each member of the Board shall have

one vote

Provided that the Chairman may if he think it desirable,

and shall at the request of either the employers’ side or of the

workers’ side tahe a vote by sides. In such a division the Chairman

and the independent members shall not vote, but, in the event of the

division resulting in a disagreement between the two sides, the

question may be decided by the majority vote of the Chairman and

of the independent members.