Cap. 343 Art. 4Functions of the Authority.

(1) The functions of the Authority shall be:

(a) to monitor employment and to investigate and adjudicate, in such manner as it may determine, any complaints which any interested party may bring before it regarding employment and training services provided by the Corporation;

(b) to hear appeals as provided for in this Act;

(c) to tender advice to the Minister on any matter relating to the employment or training of workers, either at the request of the Minister or on its own initiative, including proposals for regulations for such purposes or in such circumstances as in the opinion of the Minister or of the Authority it is necessary or expedient to make provision by regulation;

(d) to make rules subject to the provisions of this Act:

(i) regarding the circumstances under which a person registered for employment may lose his priority for referral for employment; and

(ii) providing for special consideration to be given to determinate classes of applicants being applicants with dependants, applicants who are disabled, infirm or incapacitated or applicants requiring physical or social rehabilitation;

(e) such other functions as are or may be assigned to it by this Act or any other law.

(2) Where the Authority acts as a tribunal to hear appeals as provided in paragraph (b) of the foregoing subarticle, the following provisions shall, without prejudice to the provisions of any regulations made under article 54, apply:

(a) the Authority shall reject any appeal which is not made in writing within the time specified in the provision of this Act allowing such appeal;

(b) the chairman of the Authority or in his absence the

(c) summons for attendance of witnesses shall be signed by the chairman or, in his absence, the deputy chairman, and may be served either personally or by registered post, and in the latter case, in proving service, it shall be sufficient to prove that the summons was properly addressed and posted;

(d) all persons summoned to attend and give evidence at any sitting of the Authority shall be bound to obey the summons served on them; and any person refusing or omitting without sufficient cause to attend at the day, time and place mentioned in the summons served on him or to answer, to the best of his knowledge and belief, all questions put to him by or with the concurrence of the Authority, or to produce books or other documents required by the Authority to be produced before it, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act: Provided that no person giving evidence before the Authority shall be compelled to incriminate himself and every such person shall, in respect of any evidence given by him before the Authority, be entitled to all the privileges to which a person giving evidence before a court of law is entitled in respect of evidence given by him before such court;

(e) the decisions of the Authority on any appeal made under this Act shall be final.

(3) The Authority shall, in January of each year, submit a report of its activities to the Minister who shall lay the same on the Table of the House of Representatives not later than the sitting first occurring after thirty days from its receipt.