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The The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986 (TDWSHWA) contains a total of 19 sections organized across 1 chapters. The chapters are: Chapter I — Full Text — 19 sections.

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S.10Power of appropriate Government to direct inquiry into cases of accidents or diseases .-(1) The appropriate Government may, if it considers it expedient to do so, appoint a competent person to inquire into the causes of any accident occurring in connection with any dock work or into any cases where a disease specified by regulations as a disease connected with dock work has been or is suspected to have been contracted by dock workers and may also appoint one or more persons possessing legal or special knowledge to act as assessors in such inquiry

S.1Short title, extent, commencement and application .-(1) This Act may be called The Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986

S.3Inspectors .-(1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such person as it thinks fit to be the Chief Inspector of Dock Safety and such persons as it thinks fit to be Inspectors subordinate to the Chief Inspector for the purposes of this Act, at such ports as may be specified in the notification

S.5Powers of Inspectors where employment of dock workers are dangerous .-(1) If it appears to an Inspector that any place at which any dock work is being carried on is in such a condition that it is dangerous to life, safety or health, of dock workers, he may, in writing, serve on the owner or on the person in charge of such place an order prohibiting any dock work in such place until measures have been taken to remove the cause of the danger to his satisfaction

S.7Restrictions on disclosure of information .-(1) All copies of, and extracts from, registers or other records in relation to any dock work and all other information required by the Chief Inspector or an Inspector or by any one assisting him, in the course of the inspection or investigation carried out for the purposes of this Act or the regulations shall be regarded as confidential and shall not be disclosed to any person or authority unless such disclosure is for the purpose of any action or proceeding under this Act or the regulations or under any other law or unless the Chief Inspector or the Inspector considers such disclosure necessary to ensure the health, safety or welfare of any dock worker

S.11Obligations of dock workers .-(1) No dock worker shall

S.12Power to exempt .-The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt from all or any of the provisions of this Act and of the regulations, or such conditions, if any, as it thinks fit

S.14Penalties .-(1) Whoever,

S.17Provision relating to jurisdiction .-(1) No Court inferior to that of a metropolitan magistrate or a magistrate of the first class shall try any offence under this Act or the regulations

S.20Power to make rules .-The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules consistent with this Act for all or any of the following purposes, namely:

S.21Power to make regulations .-(1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make regulations consistent with this Act for providing for the safety, health and welfare of dock workers

S.23Amendment of Act 9 of 1948.-In the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act, 1948 (9 of 1948), in section 3, in sub-section (2),

S.15Determination of the persons responsible for the offence in certain cases .-If the person committing an offence made punishable by this Act or the regulations or any abetment thereof is a firm or other association of individuals or a company or a local authority, all or any of the partners or members or directors thereof as well as the firm, association of individuals, company or local authority shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence or abetment and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly:

S.16Power of Court to make orders .-Where a person is convicted of an offence punishable under this Act the Court may, in addition to awarding him any punishment, by order in writing, require him within a period specified in the order (which may be extended by the Court from time to time on application made in this behalf) to take such measures as may be so specified for remedying the matters in respect of which offence was committed

S.2Definitions .-In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

S.22General provision relating to rules and regulations .-(1) The power to make rules and regulations conferred by sections 20 and 21 is subject to the condition of the rules and regulations being made after previous publications

S.4Powers of Inspectors .-An Inspector may, at any port for which he is appointed,

S.9Advisory Committee .-(1) The appropriate Government may constitute an Advisory Committee to advise upon such matters arising out of the administration of this Act and the regulations as that Government may refer to it for advice

S.8/447 Statement of Objects and Reasons

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