Sunday Labour in Mines Act 1899 (WA)

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No. XXXV.

AN ACT to prevent the unnecessary Employ-

ment of Labour in Mines on Sundays.

[Assented to, -16th December, -499.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :-

1. THIS Act may be cited as the Sunday Labour in Mines Short title.

Act, 1899, and shall come into operation on the first day of

April, 1900.

2. EXCEPT as hereinafter mentioned, no person shall, directly Prohibition of labour

or indirectly, employ any workman for hire or reward to do any-	on mines on Sunday.
skilled or unskilled manual labour on a Sunday, in or about any mine within the meaning of the Mines Regulation. Act of 1895 and any amendment thereof.

3.     EVERY person who employs a workman to do work

contrary to this Act shall be liable, on being- convicted thereof' Penalty.

before a Court of summary jurisdiction, to a penalty not exceeding

Five pounds for every workman so employed ; and, if the employer

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is a company, the mine manager and every director thereof shall be

severally liable to the like fine.

Excel) ton. 4. THIS Act shall not apply to the employment of persons

engaged in b

(a.) Connection with smelting or roasting furnaces or ore reduction plants using cyanide or chemicals in a con- tinuous process ;

(b.) The protection of property in and about a mine;

(r.) Attending to any furnace, engine, boiler, or machinery so

that the same may be in working order at the close of

Sunday ;

(d.) Pumping or otherwise clearing a mine from water so

that work may be resumed at the close of Sunday ;

(e.) Doing any work required by a dangerous emergency ; or

( .1) Doing work authorised by an Inspector of Mines, as

hereinafter provided.

5. AN Inspector of Mines, on being satisfied that the employ-

Power to Inspector

to authorise Sunday	ment of labour on a Sunday is necessary to avoid the risk of injury
labour in certain	to a mine or its operations, may give authority for such employ-
Cases.	ment by a writing, stating therein the reasons therefor, the number of workmen who may be so employed, the nature of their employ- ment, and the period for which the authority shall extend.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent

to this Act.

GERARD SMITH, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PETHER, Government Printer, Perth.