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Contracts of Employment Act 1963 s 6

Contracts of Employment Act 1963 s 6

s 6 Excluded of posed

(1) The foregoing sections of this Act shall not apply to any registered dock worker as defined by any scheme in force Under the Dock Workers (Regulation of Employment) Act 1946 6, "except when engaged in work which is not dock work as defined by the scheme. (2) The foregoing sections of this Act shall not apply to— (a) a person employed as master of or a seaman on @ . seagoing British ship having a gross registered tonnage of 80 tons or more, including a person ordinarily employed as a seaman who is employed in or about such a ship in port by the owner or charterer of the ship to do work of a kind ordinarily done by a seaman on such a ship while it is in port, or (b) a person working under an indenture of apprenticeship recorded in accordance with the requirements of section 108 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (apprenticeship to the sea service), or (c) a person employed as a skipper of or a seaman on a fishing boat for the time being required to be registered under section 373 of the said Act. (3) Section 4 of this Act shall not apply where the employee is the father, mother, husband, wife, son or daughter of the employer. (4) Section 4 of this Act shall apply to an employee who at any time comes or ceases to come within the exceptions provided for by or under this section as if a period of employment terminated or began at that time. (5) The Minister shall have power by order— (a) to provide that all or any of the foregoing sections of this Act shall not apply to persons or to employment of such classes or descriptions as may be prescribed by the order, and (b) to vary or revoke any of the provisions of subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this section. (6) An order under the last foregoing subsection may contain such transitional and other supplemental and incidental provisions as appear to the Minister to be expedient, and may be varied or revoked by a further order so made. Any order under this section shall be made by statutory instrument, but no such order shall be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House.

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