ACT No. xxvm of 1980 AN ACT to amend the Public Transport (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1970. (regulationofemployment)

I assent.

A NTON BUTTIGIEG

President

10th October, 1980

ACT No. xxvm of 1980

AN ACT to amend the Public Transport (Regulation of Employment)

Act, 1970.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

(l ) This Act may be cited as the Public Transport (Regula­

tion of Employment) (Amendment) Act, 1980, and shall be read and

construed as one wth the Public Transport (Regulation of Employ­

ment) Act, 1970, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act".

(2) The provisions of this Act shall come into force on such

date as the Minister responsible for labour may by notke in the

Gazette appoint.

Section 3 of the principal Act shall be amended as follows

(a) in subsection (2) thereof, for the words "The Chairman

shall be a person who holds or has held the office of Magistrate of

J udicial Police" there shall be substituted the words "The Chair­

man shall be a person who does not represent the interests of

either the employers or the employees";

(b) immediately after subsection (2) thereof, there shall be

inserted the fol1owing new subsection

"(2A) Before entering upon the duties of their appoint­

ment, the Chairman, if he does not hold judicial office, and the

other members of the Board shall take an oath to examine and

decide all applications and appeals with equity and impartia­

lity and in accordance with this Act. Where the Chairman

holds judicial office the oath shall be administered by him to

the other members; in other cases the oath shalI be taken before

the Attomey General. ";

(c) for subsection (8) thereof, there shall be substituted the

following

"(8) All decisions of the Board shall be by a majority

of votes of all members. ";

(d) for subsection (11) thereof, there shall be substituted the

following

"(11) The Board shall have the power to summon

witnesses and to administer the oath, and such summons shall

be issued, made and served by such person and in such manner

and form as the Board may deem appropriate. "; and

(e) in subsection (13) thereof, the words "and of the Chair­

man" shall be deleted.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 421 of the 7th October, 1980.

C.AGIUS

Speaker

C. MIFSUD

Clerk to the House of Representatives

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