Rural Workers Accommodation Act 1942 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 11 of 1942.

AN ORDINANCE

I To amend the Rural Workers Accommodation

Ordinance 1938.

^ f c Executive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the	BE it ordained by the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the Federal
Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909-1938 and the Seat of
Government (Administration) Act 1910-1940, as follows:—

1.— (1.) This Ordinance may be cited as the Rural Workers Shorttitie

Accommodation Ordinance 1942.*

(2.) The Rural Workers Accommodation Ordinance 1938 is in

this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

(3.) The Principal Ordinance, as amended by this Ordinance, Definitions,

may be cited as the Rural Workers Accommodation	Ordinance
1938-1942.

2.   Section three of the Principal Ordinance is amended— (a) by insert ing in the definition of " Owner ", after the

word " o f " (second occurr ing) , the words ", and a

lessee of,"; and

(6) by inserting, after the definition of " Pastoral occupa-

tion ", the following definition—

" ' Premises ' means any land, building or place on

or in which any ru ra l worker is employed or

^ ^ accommodated; ".

^ ^ 3 . Section six of the Pr incipal Ordinance is amended— Accommodation

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21et May, 1942.

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words "of their provided.

» employer " ;

(b) by omitting from the proviso to that sub-seetion the

words " provided for him by his employer" and

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inserting in their stead the words " so provided for

h i m " ; and

(c) by inserting in sub-section (2.), after paragraph (,;'),

the following paragraphs :—

" (ja) each window and each ventilative opening

of any kitchen, dining room and store

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room is covered with wire gauze of a maximum mesh of one-sixteenth part of an inch;

" (jb) each doorway of any kitchen, dining room

and store room is provided with a light	I
swing frame, closely fitting and self- closing, and covered with wire gauze of a maximum mesh of one-sixteenth part of an inch;

" (jc) each dining room contains a fire-place the

width of the opening of which is—

(i) where not moro than ten workers are employed—not less than four feet;

(ii) where more than ten workers and not more than fifteen workers are employed—not less than five feet; and

(iii) where more than fifteen workers are employed—not less than six feet:

Provided that the prescribed fire-place
may be provided in a room other than a

dining room if an inspector so approves; ".

Dated this twentieth day of Mav, 1942.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. S. COLLINGS

Minister of State for the Interior.

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By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra. I