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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 31

"Controller" means a Waterfront Controller appointed under these regulations:
"Minister" means the Minister of Labour:
"Wharf" includes any wharf, quay, pier, jetty, or other place used or capable of being used for the loading or unloading of ships or for the storage of cargo immediately prior to loading on a ship or subsequent to unloading and prior to delivery from the wharf; and also includes any place belonging to or in the possession of or under the control of a Harbour Board; and also includes any railway or public highway so far as it intersects or is contiguous to or runs on any such wharf, quay, pier, jetty, or other place as aforesaid.

3. The Minister may appoint a Waterfront Control Commission (hereinafter referred to as the Commission) comprising three persons.

4. The Commission shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal, and shall be capable of holding real and personal property and of doing and suffering all that bodies corporate may do and suffer.

5. The Commission shall from time to time notify in the Gazette an address at which documents may be served, and any document may be served on the Commission by leaving it at the notified office or by sending it through the post in a registered letter addressed to the Commission at that office.

6. The Commissioners shall hold office during the pleasure of the Minister.

7. The decision of a majority of the Commissioners shall be the decision of the Commission.

8. In the absence or illness of any Commissioner the Minister may appoint some other person to act in his stead, who, while so acting, shall have and may exercise all the powers of the Commissioner for whom he is acting.

9. (1) Meetings of the Commission may be held at such times and places as the Commission may think fit.
   (2) Two shall form a quorum at any meeting of the Commission.

(3) Subject to the provisions of these regulations, the Commission shall regulate its own procedure.

10. (1) The Minister may from time to time appoint for any port or ports in New Zealand a Waterfront Controller, and may also appoint such Assistant Waterfront Controllers as he thinks necessary.

(2) Every Controller and Assistant Controller shall hold his position during the pleasure of the Minister.

11. There may from time to time be appointed a Secretary to the Commission and such other officers and servants as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of carrying out the functions of the Commission.

12. (1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Act, the Commission may from time to time do all such things as it deems necessary for the purpose of ensuring the utmost expedition in the loading, unloading, and storage of cargo at any port.

(2) Without limiting the general power conferred on the Commission by clause (1) of this regulation, it is hereby declared that in the exercise of that power the Commission may from time to time do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) Control, use, or administer any wharf or wharves, including any gear or equipment thereon, and also any barges, lighters, and other vessels:
(b) Direct in such manner as it may think fit the loading, unloading, or storage of cargo at any wharf or wharves, or the loading or unloading of any barges, lighters, or other vessels:
(c) Take such action as it may think fit to ensure the loading, unloading, or storage of cargo in or from any ship, or the continuation of any such work by the workers employed for the purpose: