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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Section 47 of the principal Ordinance is repealed.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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