Cap. 171 Art. 12Board to decide work disputes.

(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of article 11, the Board shall also decide on specific disputes which may arise between the employers of port workers and port workers in connection with port work in accordance with -

(a) conditions of employment established in an order which is in force under the provisions of article 11(1)(d) and (e); or

(b) such standards as may seem reasonable to the Board, where no such conditions of employment are applicable to a particular dispute:

Provided that where a Service Level Agreement has established procedures under which a particular dispute between an employer of port workers and port workers can be resolved, the Board may decide not to take cognizance of any such dispute referred to it if it considers that all procedures under the said Service Level Agreement have not been exhausted.

(2) Any decision given by the Board shall be final and binding in respect of the particular dispute but it shall not have the force of approved conditions of employment for the purposes of any future dispute of a similar nature.

(3) Every decision of the Board under this article shall be distributed to the parties involved in the dispute.

(4) Unless the Minister directs otherwise, the procedures relative to matters under this article shall be regulated by the provisions of Part Two of the Second Schedule, which provisions may be amended by regulations made by the Minister from time to time.