Employment Brokers Act Amendment Act 1912 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO TERTIO

GEORGII QUINTI REGIS,

XLV.

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No. 64 of 1912.

AN ACT to amend the Employment Brokers

Act,1909.

[Assented to 30th December, 1912.]

tive Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legisla-

assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.     This Act may be cited as the Employment Brokers Act Short title.

Amendment Act, 1912.

2.      Section three of the Employment Brokers Act, 1909 (herein- Amendment of

after called the principal Act) is hereby amended as follows :— Section 3.

The definitions of " Licensing Magistrates " and " Licens- ing Meeting " are struck out, and the following definitions substituted :—

" Licensing Magistrates " means a Licensing Court under

the Licensing Act, 1911 ;

" Licensing Meeting " means a sitting of a Licensing Court

under the Licensing Act, 1911, and

" Quarterly Licensing Meeting " means a quarterly sitting

of such a Court ;

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Amendment of

Sec. 4. 3. Section four of the principal Act is hereby amended by the

addition of the following subsections :-

(4.) Every such clerk shall with all convenient speed notify the Chief Inspector of Factories of every entry made in the register kept by him, and the said Inspector shall cause the information supplied to him to be entered in a general register of employment brokers to be kept by such Inspector in Perth.

(5.) Such general register shall be open to public inspec- tion without fee at all times during ordinary office hours.

Amendment of 4. Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended by the (2.) A license under this Act shall operate only within the district in which it was granted, and any person being the holder of a license for any district under this Act who carries on business as an employment broker in any other district for which he has not obtained a license shall be deemed tq be carrying on business without holding a license and punishable accordingly.

Sec. 5. addition of the following subsection :—

Amendment of 5. Section seven of the principal Act is hereby amended :-

Sec. 7. (i.) By the substitution of the word " quadruplicate " for the word " triplicate " in subsection (1), and by the addition at the end of subsection (2) of the words " and shall send one of such notices to the Chief Inspector of Factories in Perth or to the Inspector of Factories stationed nearest to the office of such clerk " ; and

(ii.)

By the insertion of a subsection as follows :

(3.) The Governor shall from time to time by pro-

clamation declare what Licensing Court shall deal with applications and exercise jurisdiction as Licen- sing Magistrates under this Act in each district, and may at any time revoke or vary any such pro- clamation, and the Court having authority for the time being under any such proclamation in respect of any district shall be deemed to be the " Licensing Magistrates," and every member or deputy member, whilst acting as a member thereof, a Licensing Magis- trate for that district.

Amendment of 6. Section fifteen of the principal Act is hereby amended by

Section 15.

the insertion between the first and second paragraphs of the words

following :-

The said scale shall specify the maximum amount chargeable

to the employer and the maximum amount chargeable

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to the employee for and in respect of any hiring. And no deposit or posting of any scale not in accordance with these provisions shall be deemed to be a com- pliance with this section.

7.     Section twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended by Amendment of

the omission of the words " on his demand." Sec. 20.

8.     Section twenty-two of the principal Act is hereby amended Amendment of

by the insertion of the words " by any Inspector of Factories " See. 22.

after the word " District."

9.     All copies of the principal Act hereafter printed by the Mode of show

Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act Amendments.

under the supervision of the Clerk of the Parliaments, and re-

ference shall be made in the margin of the principal Act to the

sections of this Act by which such amendments are respectively

made.

By Authority: FRED. Win. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.