Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The Board may provide the necessary labour for handling (on shore) import and export goods and goods for transhipment at the alongside berths, but the Board shall not be responsible for loss or damage arising in consequences of sufficient labour being unobtainable owing to strike or riots, to the sudden outbreak of epidemic disease or to any other cause beyond their control, (2) The Board may, however, permit owners of cargoes or their agents to undertake the landing or shipment of goods from and on vessel, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the Board from time to time. (3) Labour shall be supplied under the following conditions- (i) Applications shall be made in writing and signed by the master or chief officer or agents of the vessel requiring labour. (ii) Applications for labour at night shall be made by 2.30 p.m. for the following day by 3.30 p.m. (iii) In case where labour is ordered and supplied but not fully or properly utilised, the Board may call upon the master, Chief Officer or agents to pay the actual cost of labour rendered idle during such time as it shall not have been properly utilised. (iv) In case where labour is ordered and supplied but sent away or not required after work shall have commenced at 8 a.m. or 6 p.m. the Board may call upon the master, Chief Officer, or agents to pay the actual cost of labour for the whole day or whole night as the case may be. (v) Vessel coming to the alongside berths in the afternoon shall be supplied with labour only if such is available, unless previous orders have given by the Traffic Manager.