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PART V.
Regulation of Wages of Members of Staffs of Shops.
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Shop Wages Board.
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Establishment of Shop Wages Board.
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41.—(1) On the commencement of this Part of this Act there shall be established a board (in this Act referred to as the Board) to be styled and known as the Shop Wages Board to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Act.
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(2) The Board shall consist of three members namely—
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(a) a chairman (in this Act referred to as the chairman), and
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(b) two ordinary members.
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(3) The members of the Board shall be nominated by the Minister from time to time as occasion requires.
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(4) One of the ordinary members shall be a person who is in the opinion of the Minister representative of proprietors of shops, and the other ordinary member shall be a person who is in the opinion of the Minister representative of members of the staffs of shops.
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(5) The Chairman shall hold office during the pleasure of the Minister.
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(6) Each ordinary member of the Board, unless he sooner dies, resigns, or becomes disqualified, shall hold office for such period, not exceeding five years, as the Minister may fix at the time of his nomination, but shall be eligible for renomination.
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(7) If and whenever an ordinary member of the Board is adjudged bankrupt, or makes a composition or arrangement with his creditors, or is sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction to suffer imprisonment or penal servitude, or ceases to be ordinarily resident in the State or absents himself from all sittings of the Board for a period of three months without the permission of the Minister he shall be disqualified from holding the office of ordinary member of the Board.
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(8) Whenever it appears to the Minister that on account of illness or for other sufficient reason a member of the Board is temporarily unable to discharge his duties as such member, the Minister may appoint a person to act as a member for such period (not exceeding the duration of such inability) as he shall think proper, and every person so appointed to act as a member of the Board shall during the period for which he is so appointed be a member of the Board in the place of such first-mentioned member.
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(9) The quorum at any meeting of the Board shall be all three members.
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