Stevedoring Industry (Port Quotas) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. 170.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE STEVEDORING INDUSTRY ACT 1947.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Stevedoring Industry Act 1947.

Dated this nineteenth day of December, 1947.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. P. ASHLEY

Minister of State for Supply and Shipping.

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Stevedoring Industry (Port Quotas) Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Stevedoring Industry (Port Quotas) Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“quota”, in relation to a port, means the number of waterside workers determined by the Commission under section 28 of the Act to be required for the proper and effective conduct of stevedoring operations at that port;

“the Act” means the Stevedoring Industry Act 1947.

Quotas.

3.—(1.) In exercising its powers under section 28 of the Act, the Commission shall observe the following principles:—

(a) The Commission shall, before taking any action under that section in relation to a port, consult the Waterside Employment Committee and the branch of the Federation at that port.

(b)The Commission shall not take any action under that section in respect of a port unless the Commission is satisfied that—

(i) the quota is likely to remain for an indefinite period less than the number of waterside workers registered at that port; and

(ii) the number of waterside workers registered at that port cannot be reduced to the quota of that port by the registration of waterside workers at some other port.

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22nd December, 1947.

7851.—Price 3d.

 

(c) The Commission shall not suspend or cancel the registration of a waterside worker who, immediately prior to the twenty-eighth day of March, 1947 (being the date on which the Act received the Royal Assent), was a member of the Federation or a person registered as a waterside worker under Part V. of the National Security (Shipping Co-ordination) Regulations.

(d)Where the Commission determines that the suspension or cancellation of the registration of waterside workers registered at a port is unavoidable, the waterside workers whose registration is suspended or cancelled shall be the waterside workers last registered at that port.

(2.) Where the number of waterside workers registered at a port has fallen to less than the quota of that port, the Commission shall grant priority in the cancellation of suspension of, or in the registration of, waterside workers at that port to waterside workers whose registration was suspended or cancelled under section 28 of the Act and shall cancel the suspension of, or register, at that port waterside workers whose registration was so suspended or cancelled in their order or seniority as determined by the length of their registration prior to its suspension or cancellation.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.