STEVEDORING INDUSTRY AMENDMENT ACT 1976
No. 178 of 1976
An Act to amend the Stevedoring
Industry Act 1956.
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short
title, &c.
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Stevedoring
Industry Amendment Act 1976.
(2) The Stevedoring Industry Act 1956 is in this Act
referred to as the Principal Act.
Commencement.
2. (1) Subject to sub-section (2),
this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal
Assent.
(2) Sections 3, 4 and 5 shall come into operation on the day on
which an award or order of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration
Commission providing for long service leave for waterside workers comes into
operation.
Interpretation.
3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is
amended by omitting from sub-section (1) the definitions of “long service leave”
and of “qualifying service”.
Functions
of the Authority.
4. Section 17 of the Principal Act
is amended—
(a) by adding at the end of sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (c) of
sub-section (1) the word “and”; and
(b) by omitting sub-paragraph (ii) of that paragraph.
Long
service leave.
5. Part IIIa of the Principal Act is repealed.
Borrowings
by the Authority.
6. Section 47 of the Principal Act
is amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “, but the aggregate of
the amounts borrowed by the Authority under this sub-section and not repaid
shall not exceed One million dollars”.
Commission
may provide for long service leave.
7. An award or order of the
Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission under Division 4 of Part III
of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904