S.L. 499.1 Art. 70Requests to work and overtime work.

(1) Work ashore and afloat in connection with the loading, unloading, landing, shipping and transhipment of cargo shall only be undertaken with the permission of the Authority:

Provided that a specific permission for the unloading and landing of cargo for transhipment shall be requested, on the form contained in the Fourteenth Schedule, not later than forty-eight hours before the arrival of the ship in Malta, and any such permission, if granted, shall be subject to such conditions as the Authority may impose.

(2) When a ship or a person whose cargo is being handled by the Authority or its contractor desires to work such cargo during hours other than the regular working hours of a port as established under the Port Workers Ordinance, the master or agent or such person, as the case may be, shall on each occasion make a written request to that effect to the Authority in the form specified in Part I of the Tenth Schedule; and any work specified in subregulation (1) performed in connection with such request shall be considered as overtime work and the expense thereof in accordance with the provisions of the tariff shall be charged to the master, agent or person requesting such overtime work.

(3) Where a person desires work other than that specified in subregulations (1) and (2) to be performed by the Authority or its contractor in hours other than the hours of business of the ports fixed by regulations by the Minister responsible for ports for that category of work such person shall make a written request to that effect to the Authority or the contractor, as the case may be, in the form specified in the Ninth Schedule, and such work shall be considered as overtime work and the expenses thereof in accordance with the provisions of the tariff shall be charged to the person requesting such overtime work: Provided that the work of the port workers registered in terms of the Port Workers Ordinance shall be considered to be overtime work only if such work is performed in hours other than the regular working hours of a port as established under that Ordinance.

Provided that on such days and afternoons port work authorised by the Authority under the provisions of the Port

Workers Ordinance may be performed.