Rural Workers Accommodation Act 1951 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.

No. 16 of 1951.

A]NT ORDINANCE

To amend the Rural Workers Accommodation

Ordinance 1938-1942.

l Federal Executive Council, in pursuance of the powers conferred BE it ordained by the Deputy of the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, with the advice of the

by the Seat of Government Acceptance Act 1909-1938 and the Seat

of Government (Administration) Act 1910-1947, as follows:—

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

Accommodation Ordinance 1951.* and citation.

(2.) The Rural Workers Accommodation Ordinance 1938-1942

is in this Ordinance referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

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

may be cited as the Rural Workers Accommodation	Ordinance
193S-1951.

2. Section three of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Definitions

inserting before the definition of " Agricultural occupation " the

following definition:—

"'Accommodation' includes buildings, equipment and
facilities for use in connexion with accommodation or

with the supply, preparation or consumption of meals;".

3. Section six of the Principal Ordinance is amended— Accommodation

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I	to be provided.

(a) by omitting paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-section (2.)

and inserting in their stead the following

paragraphs:—

" (b) there is provided for eacli person in each sleeping compartmeDt not less than four hundred and thirty cubic feet of air space measured below a height of eight feet above the surface of the floor;

" ( c ) beds, bedding and furniture for sleeping
compartments are provided as prescribed;
" (ca) kitchen and cooking utensils and equipment

and eating utensils are provided as

prescribed;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 14th December, 1951.

" (cb) the accommodation is in accordance with the requirements of the regulations, and is equipped and used as prescribed; and " ;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (e) of sub-section (2.) the word " no " and inserting in its stead the words " except as prescribed, no ";

(c) by omitting paragraphs (ja), (jb) and (jc) of sub-

section (2.) ;

(d) by omitting paragraph (m) of sub-section (2.) and

inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

" (m) a sufficient supply of good drinking water

is provided; " ; and I

(e) by omitting paragraph (p) of sub-section (2.).

premises011 ° f ^. Section eight of the Principal Ordinance is repealed.
Dated this fourteenth day of December, 1951.

J. NORTHCOTT

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

W. S. KENT HUGHES

Minister of State for the Interior.

By Authori ty: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canlx'ira.