Dock Work Regulation Act 1976

11 Classification orders

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Secretary of State may by order applying to any description of work done or to be done at specified premises situated in a definable dock area, direct that the work, so far as done at those premises, be classified as dock work for the purposes of the new Scheme, or shall cease to be so classified.

(2) Subject to subsection (4) below, orders directing that work be classified shall be made only as and when the Secretary of State thinks it expedient—

(a) for preserving as dock work under the new Scheme (pursuant to a report by the Board under section 6) any work which was dock work for the purposes of the old Scheme, or so treated by custom and practice ; or

(b) for giving effect to a recommendation of the Board under section 7, 8 or 9.

(3) Also subject to subsection (4), an order that work shall cease to be classified shall be made only as and when the Secretary of State thinks it expedient for giving effect to a recommendation of the Board under section 9.

(4) In the case of work which has been the subject of a direction to the Board under section 9, the Secretary of State may, after considering the Board's report, make an order under this section directing that the work be classified or, as the case may be, that it shall cease to be classified, notwithstanding that this is contrary to the Board's opinion; but an order is not to be made by virtue of this subsection unless a draft of it has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.

(5) Where the Secretary of State makes an order under this section directing, in the case of work done or to be done at any premises, that it be classified as dock work, he may also by the order direct that, as respects any category of persons who have been employed to do that work in a specified period before the order comes into force, the Scheme is to be applied and have effect subject to provisions of the order, being provisions considered appropriate by him for giving effect (with or without modifications) to any proposals made by the Board under section 10 above.