Cap. 171 Art. 17Regulations.

The Minister may make regulations for carrying the provisions of this Ordinance into effect, and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, for -

(a) prescribing the tariff of fees payable to foremen;

(b) providing for the recruitment of foremen, the conditions required for their licensing, the fees payable in respect of such licences, the classification of foremen into groups, the duties of foremen, the determination of the number of foremen to be licensed and the age at which foremen employed by a contractor shall retire from work;

(c) providing for the recruitment of port workers, the conditions required for their registration and the fees payable in respect of such registration, and for determining the optimum number of port workers to be registered;

(d) authorizing the Authority to issue to any port worker upon registration and on payment of the prescribed

(f) ensuring the proper utilization of the labour of port workers for the purpose of facilitating the rapid and economic turn-round of vessels and the safe and speedy transit of goods through the port, and for enabling the Port Workers Board to investigate any disruption caused by an employer of port workers of a roster in which port workers are organized and to award compensation not exceeding one thousand and one hundred and sixty-four euro and sixty-nine cents (1,164.69) against such employer in favour of port workers prejudiced by such disruption;

(g) prescribing a tariff of fees payable by employers of port workers;

(h) providing for the establishment of a Pension and Contingency Fund;

(i) prescribing the manner in which the Pension and Contingency Fund shall be administered and the charges that may be made against it;

(j) prescribing the manner in which a pension and other financial benefits shall be paid to port workers and to persons who have served as port workers, and the manner in which any pension or other financial benefits so paid under the provisions of this Ordinance may be recovered from any person;

(k) providing for a levy on employers of port workers and on port workers towards the Pension and Contingency Fund;

(l) prescribing anything that may be prescribed;

(m) providing that any person who contravenes or fails to comply with the provisions of any such regulations shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction, to a fine (multa) not exceeding one hundred and sixteen euro and forty-seven cents (116.47) and, where the regulations so provide, to the cancellation or suspension of any licence issued to him under this Ordinance; and

(n) providing for any other matter incidental or supplementary to any of the foregoing matters.