Section 3. Scheme for ensuring regular employment of workers

3. Scheme for ensuring regular employment of workers .—(1) Provision may be made by a scheme for the registration of dock workers[5] [and employers] with a view to ensuring greater regularity of employment and for regulating the employment of dock workers, whether registered or not, in a port. (2) In particular, a scheme may provide— (a) for the application of the scheme to such classes of dock workers and employers as may be specified therein; (b) for defining the obligations of dock workers and employers subject to the fulfilment of which the scheme may apply to them and the circumstances in which the scheme shall cease to apply to any dock workers or employers; (c) for regulating the recruitment and entry into the scheme of dock workers,[6] [and the registration of dock workers and employers], including the maintenance of registers, the removal either temporarily or permanently, of names from the registers and the imposition of fees for registration;