Magistrates jurisdiction (1840) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO QUARTO

VICTORIA: REGINA].

No. 2.

An Act to extend the Jurisdiction of Magis- trates in Cases of Complaint between Masters and Servants.

Preamble.	"WIEBEAS it is expedient to empower the Magistrates of thisMasters and Servants of every description, whether domestic servants, ser-colony to hear and determine all cases of complaint by or against
Tants in husbandry, or any other sort of servants, or by or against artificers, workmen, and labourers of every description employed to perform any work, whether by the hour, or by the day, or in any other manner in respect of time, or by the piece, or the job, or in any other manner in respect of work.

The several provisions	Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Western Australia and
of the English law,

relative to disputes	its Dependencies, by and 'with the advice and consent of the Legislative
between Master and
Servant, shall apply to	Council thereof, That the several enactments and provisions of the

Anno Quarto Viet. keg., No. 2.

English law relative to disputes between Masters and Servants, so far ns s'rrcr? " of every de` Seripnon in this Co-

the same are applicable to the circumstances of this Colony shall hem/v•

deemed and taken to apply to servants of every description as well do-

mestic as otherwise, whatever may be the nature or the term of the ser-

vice, and to artificers, workmen, and labourers of every description, em-

ployed to perform any work, whatever may be the nature or the mode

of such employment,

JOHN BUTT,

GOVERNOR AND GONMANDER-IN- CHIEF.

Passed the Legislative Council

the 2nd day of July, 1840.

WA LICINSHAW COWAN,

Clerk of the Council,