Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 164

REGULATIONS UNDER THE STEVEDORING INDUSTRY FINANCE COMMITTEE ACT 1977*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Act 1977.

Dated this thirtieth day of August 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. A. STREET

Minister of State for Employment and Industrial Relations

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE STEVEDORING INDUSTRY FINANCE COMMITTEE REGULATIONS 

1. After regulation 1 of the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Interpretation

“ 1a. In these Regulations, ‘ the Act ’ means the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Act 1977.”.

Prescribed services and amenities for purposes of section 10 of Act

2. Regulation 2 of the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Regulations is amended by omitting “ Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Act 1977 ” and substituting “ Act ”.

3. The Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:

Prescribed benefits for purposes of section 12 of Act

“ 3. For the purposes of section 12 of the Act, the following benefits are benefits of a prescribed kind:

(a) payments in accordance with an award or order of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in connection with the transfer between ports of waterside workers, being payments of—

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 5 September 1978.

  Statutory Rules 1977 No. 238.

 

(i) travelling allowances or expenses to those waterside workers;

(ii) the fares of, or the costs of the hire of transport for, those waterside workers; or

(iii) the costs of accommodation and sustenance for those waterside workers,

but not being payments related to the transfer permanently or for an indefinite period of those waterside workers arranged because those waterside workers were redundant at the port from which they were transferred under an arrangement provided for in an award or order of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or by an agreement between the Association and the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia;

(b) payments in respect of the sick leave entitlements of waterside workers under an award or order of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, being entitlements that had accrued immediately before the commencement of the Act and for which the Authority within the meaning of the Stevedoring Industry Acts (Termination) Act 1977