Inspection of Machinery Act Amendment Act 1923 (WA)

No. 42.] Inspection of Machinery. [1923.

INSPECTION OF MACHINERY.

14° GEO. V., No. XXI.

No. 42 of 1923.

AN ACT to amend the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1921.

[Assented to 22nd December, 1923.]

B E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byCouncil and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:—

Short title 1.

This Act may be cited as the Inspection of Machinery Act Amendment Act, 1923; and shall be read as one with the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1921, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.

Amendment of	2.	Section fifteen of the principal Act is hereby amended
section 15.

by substituting for subsection (4) thereof, a subsection as

follows:—

(4.) No person under twenty-one years of age or between that age and fifty shall be employed in the control of a passenger lift unless he (a) has served the Empire in any war, or (b) is physically incapable of undertaking more exacting or more laborious work. Provided that no person so employed shall be paid less than the minimum wage prescribed for adult labourers.

Provided also that any person not being under the age of eighteen years, who at the commence- ment of this Act was employed in the control of a passenger lift, may continue to be so employed