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"Power of presiding officer to enforce payment of fine, etc.
45A.
For the purposes of enforcing
the payment of any fine imposed or giving
effect to any sentence of imprisonment a
presiding officer shall have the powers
of a judge."
Repeal of
12.
section 47.
Section 47 of the principal Ordinance is repealed.
Explanatory Memorandum
This Bill amends the Labour Tribunal Ordinance
in three main respects
(a)
(b)
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to provide that leave to appeal must be obtained
as a prerequisite to an appeal against an award,
order or determination by a presiding officer;
to empower a presiding officer to punish for
contempt; and
(c) to put the Ordinance on a permanent footing.
The other amendments are consequential upon the above
amendments.
Clause 2 amends section 31 of the Ordinance
as a consequence of the new provisions regarding
applications for leave to appeal.
The new section 32 in clause 3 and new section
33 in clause 4 provide for the obtaining of leave to
appeal from the tribunal. Application for leave to
appeal must be made to the tribunal in the prescribed
form within 7 days after the decision against which an
appeal is sought.
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