Section 5: Conciliation Courts, their composition, etc

5. Conciliation Courts, their composition, etc.—(1) A Conciliation Court shall be a body consisting of a Chairman and two representatives to be nominated, in the prescribed manner; by each of the parties to the dispute[.]1 2* * * * * * * (2) The Chairman of the Union Council 3[or, as the case may be, the member representing the ward, or, in the case of a ward which has more members than one, such one of them as may be determined in the prescribed manner,] shall be the Chairman of the Conciliation Court, but where he is, owing to illness or any other cause, unable to act as Chairman, or does not, on account of any personal consideration, wish to do so, or his impartiality is challenged by any party to the dispute, any other person appointed in the prescribed manner, not being a person nominated by any party, shall be the Chairman of the Court. (3) If either party to the dispute consists of more than one person, the Chairman shall call upon the persons constituting that party to nominate the two representatives on its behalf, and if they fail so to nominate, shall authorize any one of such persons to do so, and thereupon the person so authorized shall alone have the right to nominate such representatives. (4) Where representatives required under this section to be nominated are not nominated within the prescribed time, then,__ (a) if the case falls under Part I of the Schedule, the Conciliation Court shall, without such representatives, be deemed to have been validly constituted for the purposes of this Ordinance, and conciliation shall proceed accordingly; and (b) if the case falls under Part II of the Schedule, the 4[Court] shall issue a certificate that conciliation has failed.

Effective date: 1961-01-01

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