law: Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986 
  21. Power to make
  
  regulations. – 
  1.     
  
    The
  
  appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make
  
  regulations consistent with this Act for providing for the safety, health and
  
  welfare of dock workers.
  2.     
  
    Such
  
  regulation may provide for all or any of the following purposes, namely: - 
  a.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the general requirement relating to the construction, equipping and
  
  maintenance for the safety of workmen places on shore, ship, dock, structure
  
  and other places at which any dock work is carried on;
  b.    
  
    Providing
  
  for the safety of any regular approaches over a dock, wharf, quay or other
  
  places which dock worker have to use for going for work and for fencing of such
  
  places and projects;
  c.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the efficient lighting of all areas of dock, ship, any other vessel, clock
  
  structure or working a places where any dock work is carried on and of all
  
  approaches to Such places to which dock workers are required to go in the
  
  course of: their employment;
  d.    
  
    Providing
  
  and maintaining, adequate ventilation and suitable temperature in every
  
  building or an enclosure on ship where dock workers are employed;
  e.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the fire and explosion preventions and protection;
  f.     
  
    Providing
  
  for safe means of access to ships, holds, staging, equipment, appliances and
  
  other working places;
  g.    
  
    Providing
  
  for the safety of workers engaged in the opening and closing of hatches,
  
  protection of ways and other openings in the docks which may be dangerous to
  
  them.
  h.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the satiety of workers on docks from the risk of filling over-board being
  
  struck by cargo during, loading of unloading operations;
  i.      
  
    Providing
  
  for the Construction, maintenance and use of lifting and other cargo handling
  
  appliances and services, such as, pallets containing or supporting loads and
  
  provision of safety appliances on them, if necessary;
  j.      
  
    Providing,
  
  for the safety of workers employed in freight container terminals of other
  
  terminals for handing unitized cargo;
  k.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the fencing of machinery, live electrical conductors, steam pipes and
  
  hazardous openings;
  l.      
  
    Providing,
  
  for the construction, maintenance and use of staging;
  m.   
  
    Providing
  
  for the rigging and use of ship's derricks;
  n.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the testing, examination, inspection and certification as appropriate of'
  
  loose gears including chains and ropes and of slings and other lifting devices
  
  used in the dock work;
  o.    
  
    Providing
  
  for the precautions to be taken to facilitate escape of workers when employed
  
  in a hold, bin, hopper or the like or between decks of a hold while handing coal
  
  of other bulk cargo;
  p.    
  
    Providing
  
  for the measures to be taken in order to prevent dangerous methods of' working
  
  in the stacking, unstacking, stowing and unstowing of cargo or handing in
  
  connection therewith;
  q.    
  
    Providing
  
  for the handling of dangerous substances and working, in dangerous of harmful
  
  environments and the precautions to be taken in connection with Such handling;
  r.      
  
    Providing
  
  for the work in connection with cleaning, chipping painting, operations and
  
  precautions to be taken in connection with such work;
  s.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the employment of persons for handling cargo, handling appliances, power
  
  operated batch covers or other power operated ship's equipment such as, door in
  
  the hull of a ship, ramp, retraceable car deck or similar equipment or to give
  
  signals to the drivers of such machinery;
  t.      
  
    Providing
  
  for the transport of dock workers;
  u.     
  
    Providing
  
  the precautions to be taken to protect dock workers against harmful effects of
  
  excessive noise, vibration and air pollution at the work place;
  v.     
  
    Providing
  
  for protective equipment or protective clothing;
  w.    
  
    Provided
  
  for the sanitary, washing and welfare facilities-
  x.     
  
    Providing
  
  for-
                       
  
   i.        
  
    The
  
  medical supervision;
                      
  
   ii.        
  
    The
  
  ambulance rooms, first aid and rescue facilities and arrangements for the
  
  removal of dock workers to the nearest place of treatment;
                     
  
   iii.        
  
    The
  
  safety and health Organisation; and
                     
  
   iv.        
  
    The
  
  training of dock workers and for the obligations and rights of the dock workers
  
  for then safety and health at the work place;
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  y.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the investigation of occupational accidents, dangerous occurrences and
  
  diseases, specifying such diseases and the forms of' notices, the persons and
  
  authorities to whom, they are to be furnished, the particulars to be contained
  
  in them and the time within which they are to be submitted; and
  z.     
  
    Providing
  
  for the submission of statement of accidents, man-days lost, volume of cargo
  
  handled and particulars of dock workers.
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  3.     
  
    The
  
  regulations made under this section may, -
  a.     
  
    Provide
  
  for the circumstances in which and the conditions subject to which, exemptions
  
  from any of the regulations made under this section may be given specifying the
  
  authorities who may grant such exemptions and regulating their procedure; and
  b.    
  
    Make
  
  special provision to meet the special requirement of ally particular port of
  
  ports.
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  4.     
  
    In
  
  making a regulation under this section the appropriate Government may direct
  
  that a breach thereof shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which
  
  may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to five thousand
  
  rupees, or with both, and, if the breach is continued after conviction, with a
  
  further fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for each day on which the
  
  breach is so continued.