80. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires- " Board of Directors " means the Board of Directors constituted under this Act; " Director" means a member of the Board of Directors; " local authority" means any Municipal Council, Urban Council, Town Council or Village Council; " Port Commissioner " means the person for the time being holding office as Port Commissioner, Colombo, and includes any officer acting under the authority in writing of such Port Commissioner; " port entrepreneur ", with reference to the Port of Colombo, means a person who is or has been the holder of a licence referred to in subsection (1) of section 27, and, with reference to any port to which an Order made under subsection (2) of section 26 applies, means a person (other than the Corporation) carrying on an undertaking for providing in that port any of the port services referred to in section 4;"qualified worker of the Port of Colombo" means any person who-
| (i) was on February 1, 1958, either an employee of a port entrepreneur of the Port of Colombo or in the Labour Reserve established under the Port of Colombo (Administration) Act, and |
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| (ii) was engaged, in the twelve months preceding February 1, 1958, for at least one hundred and eighty days in the work of, or in work connected with or relating to, stevedoring, warehousing or landing cargo, supplying water, building or repairing boats and other vessels, or bunkering coal in the Port of Colombo, each period of eight hours' continuous work being regarded as a day for the purpose of reckoning the aforesaid one hundred and eighty days, and |
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| (iii) was on February 1, 1958, in receipt of any salary or wages (not including any allowance or any payment for overtime work) of an amount not exceeding four hundred and seventy-five rupees per mensem; |
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"remuneration" means basic daily wage or monthly salary and cost of living allowance or dearness allowance, or any composite sum consisting of the basic daily wage or monthly salary and such allowance, and does not include any payment for overtime work; and " stevedoring " means the operations connected with the loading, discharging, shipping, transhipping, and storing of cargo in the holds of, or on board, any vessel. |
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