Docks and Harbours Act 1966

1 Additional control of employment of dock workers

(1) No person shall engage any other person for employment, or employ any other person, as a dock worker in a port specified in Schedule 1 to this Act unless he holds a licence for the purpose and except in accordance with the terms of the licence:

Provided that the foregoing provision shall not apply—

(a) to the engagement for employment, or the employment, of a person in any port by the licensing authority for the port; or

(b) to the employment of a person by the Board in pursuance of the provisions of any labour scheme.

(2) A licensing authority shall not engage any person for employment, or employ any person, as a dock worker in a port so specified for which it is the licensing authority unless the authority has in accordance with the following provisions of this Part of this Act made a proposal to employ dock workers in that port and is entitled under those provisions to carry out the proposal.

(3) No person shall work as a dock worker in a port so specified unless—

(a) he does so in the employment of another person ; or

(b) at the time he does so, he employs some other person as a permanent worker in that port.

(4) Any person who contravenes any of the foregoing provisions of this section shall be liable on summary conviction—

(a) if an individual, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding £50 or both ;

(b) if a body corporate, to a fine not exceeding £500.