Catalogue description Central Office of the Industrial Tribunals: Docks and Harbours

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Details of LAB 54
Reference: LAB 54
Title: Central Office of the Industrial Tribunals: Docks and Harbours
Description:

Files of appeals made to industrial tribunals against decisions under the Docks and Harbours Act 1966.
Date: 1967-1974
Related material:

For registered files of the Arbitration Tribunals, see LAB 3

For unregistered papers concerning dock labour, see LAB 101
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 9 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Accruals: Series is not accruing.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Docks and Harbours Act 1966 s51 provided for reference to industrial tribunals any question of (i) whether certain work was dock work; and (ii) whether any place was in, or in the vicinity of, a port to which a labour scheme for the time being applied. A question was referred to the tribunals by the National Dock Labour Board, the Licensing Authority, an employer of dock labour, a trade union on behalf of employees or by a court.

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