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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 452.01
BOARDS OF CONCILIATION REGULATIONS
15th March, 1949
GOVERNMENT NOTICE 152 of 1949, as amended by Government
Notice 583 of 1949 and Emergency Ordinance VI of 1958.
Title.
Regulations.
Interpretation.
Cap. 452.
2. The meanings set out in article 2 of the Employment and
Industrial Relations Act are applicable to these regulations.
Appointment of 
Board of 
Conciliation.
3. A Board of Conciliation shall be appointed by the Minister
by means of a letter addressed to each member, and the
appointments and the composition of a Board of Conciliation shall
be published in the Gazette. When a board consists of more than
one member one of the members, to be designated as such by the
Minister, shall be chairman.
Terms of 
reference.
4. The terms of reference of a Board of Conciliation shall be
set out in writing by the Minister and transmitted to it before it
holds its first sitting.
Oath.
matters with which it is entrusted, each member thereof other than
a Judge or a Magistrate shall take an oath to conduct the
proceedings with equity and impartiality and to the best of that
member’s ability.
Powers of Board of 
Conciiliation.
Amended by:
G.N. 583 of 1949;
Em. Ord. VI of 
1958.
6. (1) A Board of Conciliation shall have the power to
summon witnesses and to administer the oath to same; to appoint
assessors; and to require any person who appears to the Board to
have special knowledge of the subject matter of the inquiry to
furnish, in writing or otherwise, and to confirm on oath such
particulars in relation thereto as the Board may require. All
necessary orders shall be made in the name of the sole member of
the Board of Conciliation or as the case may be of the chairman
thereof over the signature of the secretary of the Board. In cases
where the Board consists of more than one member, the oath shall
be administered by the chairman.
Cap. 12.
(2) In the matter of summoning witnesses and of enforcing the
attendance of the witnesses summoned, a Board of Conciliation
shall have the same powers as a civil court as set out in the Code of
Organization and Civil Procedure except that it shall not in any
case be enabled to order the detention of any person, and execpt
that the duties of court usher and of a court marshal respectively
shall be performed by members of the Executive Police detailed for
the purpose by the Commissioner of Police. Any fine inflicted by a
Board of Conciliation shall be recoverable by the Attorney General
as a civil debt due to the Government.
Report to the 
Minister.
7. At the conclusion of the proceedings the Board shall report
thereon to the Minister and shall, if a settlement of a trade dispute
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is effected thereby, attach to the report a memorandum of the terms
of such settlement signed by the parties to the dispute or their
representatives, or, if no such settlement is reached, shall set out
the point or points in respect of which agreement was not reached.
Publication of 
report.
8. The Minister, after such report has been received by him,
may cause to be published in such manner as he thinks fit either the
report as a whole or any part thereof.
Members not to 
divulge.
9. The members of a Board of Conciliation shall not divulge
anything that was discusssed by the Board in the course of its
proceedings.
Secretary of the 
Board.
10. (1) The Minister shall appoint an officer of the Ministry to
act as secretary to each Board of Conciliation, and shall make all
arrangements for the accommodation of the Board.
(2) The written record of the proceedings of a Board of
Conciliation shall, on the final report having been delivered to the
Minister, be delivered to and kept as a confidential file by the
Minister.
Witnesses.
Cap. 108.
11. Witnesses shall be paid fees in accordance with the
Witnesses (Fees) Ordinance).
