LawgistThe Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act
5BFunctions of a Board
1[5B. Functions of a Board.--(1) A Board shall be responsible for administering the scheme for the port or group of ports for which it has been established and shall exercise such powers and perform such functions as may be conferred on it by the scheme.
(2) In the exercise of its powers and the discharge of its functions, a Board shall be bound by such directions as the Government may, for reasons to be stated in writing, give to it from time to time.]
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1. Ins. by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-6-1962).
All sections
- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Definitions
- 3 Scheme for ensuring regular employment of workers
- 4 Making, variation and revocation of schemes
- 5 Advisory Committees
- 5A Dock Labour Boards
- 5B Functions of a Board
- 5C Accounts and audit
- 5D Annual report
- 5E Annual report and audited accounts, to be laid before Parliament or Legislature
- 6 Inspectors
- 6A Power to order inquiry
- 6B Power to supersede a Board
- 6C Acts or proceeding of Board and Advisory Committee not to be invalidated
- 7 Cognizance of offences
- 7A Offences by companies
- 8 Power to make rules
- 8A Schemes and rules to be laid before Parliament
- 9 Saving
