Juvenile Migrants Act 1926 (NSW)

JUVENILE M [GRANTS ACT.

Act No. 8, 1920.

An Act to provide for the care and well-being of juvenile assisted migrants ; to repeal the Juvenile Migrants Apprenticeship Act, 1923 ; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 17th March, 1926.]

1 . This Act mav be cited as the "Juvenile Migrants Act, 1920."

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of ±\o\v South BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-

Wales in Parliament assembled, and bv the authority of the same, as follows :—

2 . (1) The Juvenile Migrants Apprenticeship Act, 1923, is hereby repealed.

(2) The repeal effected by the last preceding sub- section shall not affect the future operation of that Act in respect of any juvenile who, prior to the commence­ ment of this Act, signed the statement referred to in section three of that Act.

(3) Nothing in this section shall limit or abridge any saving contained in the Interpretation Act, 1897.

3 . In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

" E m p l o y e r " means a person with whom a juvenile

is placed for employment under this Act.

" Employment " means rural or domestic employ­

ment.

" Juven i l e " means a minor who comes to New South Wales with the assistance of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia or of the State, and who is over the age of fourteen years and under the age of eighteen years at the date of arrival in the State.

" Minister " means Minister for Labour and

Industry.

4 . With respect to any juvenile who, either before or after coming to the State, signs a statement in or to the effect of the form in the Schedule to this Act the Minister—

(a)	may appoint Government training farms for the reception, control, and training of juveniles
provisions as he deems necessary for their for rural employment, and may make such control, maintenance, training, and employ­
ment in such institutions or in connection therewith ;
(b)	shall have the care and control of the person of the juvenile before he is placed for training or employment under this Act, and at any time when he ceases to be so placed ;
(c)	may place the juvenile for training and em- plovment in a Government training farm ;

(d)

(d) may place the juvenile for employment with an employer by finding a fit and proper person to employ the juvenile, and shall have the supervision of the juvenile while so placed.

5 . (1) The wages or earnings due by any person to a juvenile may be sued for and recovered by the juvenile or in the name of the Minister by some person authorised by him.

(2) An authority purporting to be signed by the Minister shall be admitted as evidence without proof of the signature.
6 . If a juvenile placed for employment with an employer under this Act dies, or suffers or sustains any serious illness or injury, or leaves the employment, the employer shall immediately give notice to the Minister and do all such further acts and things as may be required of him by the Minister, and in default thereof he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every such offence.

7 . (1) No employer shall transfer or make over to any other person the services or care of the juvenile or discharge or dismiss such juvenile unless or until the Minister has first received seven days' notice in writing

thereof.

(2) Any employer who contravenes this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

8 . (1) The Minister may at any time transfer the juvenile to another employer, or may require the juvenile to return to any training farm to be named by the Minister.

(2) The Minister may at any time, by notice in

writing, require the employer forthwith to deliver the
juvenile to some person named therein.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with any requirement under this section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds.

9. Any person who without the authority of the Minister takes or removes any juvenile from the employer with whom the juvenile is placed for employ­ ment under this Act before the expiration of the term of service shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty not

exceeding

exceeding twenty pounds. This section shall not be deemed to prevent a juvenile from terminating his employment, but in that event he shall forthwith notify the Minister.

1 0 . In all proceedings in respect of offences against this Act, the onus of showing that any juvenile described in any information as a juvenile placed for employment with an employer under this Act, is not a juvenile so placed, shall be upon the defendant.

1 1 . Proceedings in respect of a breach of this Act may be taken in a summary manner before a stipendiary or police or industrial magistrate or any two justices in petty sessions.

S C H E D U L E .

] , . do hereby declare t h a t I am desirous of coming
under the provisions of the Juveni le Migrants A c t , 1926, of the S ta te of New South Wales . It lias been explained to me tha t * dur ing my passage to t h a t S ta te I shall he under the control of a person appointed by or on behalf of the Minis te r for Labour and I n d u s t r y of t ha t S ta te , a n d t h a t * when I am in t h a t S ta te I shall, unt i l I a t t a i n the age of eighteen years, be under t h e control of the Minis te r for Labour a n d I n d u s t r y of t h a t State , and under t h e provisions of t h e abovementioned

Act . The following par t icu lars a r e t rue a n d correct : —

M y name is
M y address is

My age is

Da ted the day of 19 .

(Signature)

(* N O T E . — S t r i k e out words be tween aster isks when the form is signed in New

South Wales . )

P A R E N T ' S or G U A R D I A N ' S E N D O R S E M E N T .

I, the undersigned, being the	of the said
hereby consent to my	proceeding to New South W a l e s
under the provisions of the above Act .

(S ignature)

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