The Factories Act Amendment Act 1910 (SA)
'GEORGII
V REGIS.
A.D. 1910.
No. 1020. An Act to further amend " The Factories Act,
1907."
[Assented to, December 7th, rgro.] E it Enacted by the Governor of the State of South Australia,
follows: | B |
1. This Act may be cited alone as " The Factories Act Amend- shorttitle.
ment Act, | The Factories Act, 1907 " (hereinafter | 1907. |
called | the principal Act "1, " The Factories Act Amendment Act, 961 |
1908," and this Act, may be cited together as " The Factories Acts,
1907 to1910."
occupier; and |
and those Acts and this Act shall be read together as one Act.
Amendments of Principal Act.
of |
subsection
(5) thereof.
4, (1) The definition of the term " factory " in section |
principal Act is amended so that the said term shall include, in
addition to what is mentioned in the said section- |
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(a ) Any clay-pit or quarry within which, or the pre- Vie.Factories A&,
cincts whereof, the occupier employs any person | 197& |
at manual labour which is exercised by |
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Municipal Tramways Trust, where electricity is generated for the supply of heat, light, or power, or any or all of them, or where coal gas is made, and within which premises or place, or the precincts whereof, the occupier employs any person a t manual labour which is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain: |
(2) The term | Factory " in this Act and the principal Act does |
not include any medical dispensary or dentist's 01: chemist's
laboratory.
Amendment of E. 6.
5. The definition of the term | apprentice " in section 6 of the |
principal Act is repealed, and from the passing of this Act the term | |
" apprentice " in the principal Act and in this Act, shall mean |
and include- |
(1)
A person under twenty-one years of age who is bound byindentures of apprenticeship entered into prior to the
passing of the principal Act, which indentures-
(a) Bind the employer to instruct such person for the full period of the apprenticeship in the particular process, trade, business, occupation, or calling carried on by such employer, or in any part or parts thereof; and
( b ) Are entered into for a period-I. Of not less than three years; or
11. Which, with the addition of such time as suchperson had, before becoming bound by the said indentures, worked at t.he said process,
trade, business, occupation, or calling, or the
said part or parts thereof, makes a period of
not less than three years; or |
m. Which begins before spch person is twenty years
of age and continues until he is twenty-one
years of age; and
(2 ) A person under the age of twenty-one years who is boundby indentures of apprenticeship, entered into after the
passing of the principal Act, which indentures-
(a) Bind the employer to instruct such person for the full period of the apprenticeship in the particular process, trade, business, occupation, or calling carried on by such employer, and
( b ) Are in the form prescribed by the Board pursuant to subdivision vr. of section93 of the principal Act, or the form (if any) prescribed by the Governor under section43 of thisAct, whichever (if either) was or is in force when the indentures were or are entered into; and (c) Are
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(c) Are entered into for a period, which, if a term is pre-
scribed by the Board pursuant to subdivision
vr. ofthe said section
93- I. Is not less than the term so prescribed; or
such time as such person |
had, before becoming bound by the said indentures, worked at the said process, trade, business, occupation or calling, makes a period not less than the term so prescribed; or
111. Begins before such person is twenty years of ageand continues until he is twenty-one years
of age;
or which, if no term is so prescribed-
I. Is not less than three years; or
Ir. With the addition of such time as such person had, before becoming bound by the said indentures, worked a t the said process, trade, business, occupation or calling, makes a
period of | not less than three years; or |
r r r. Begins before such person is twenty years of ageand continues until he is twenty-one years
of age; and
(3) A person who is bound by indentures of apprenticeship approved under section 97, subsection (1)of the principal Act, by the Chairman, or by the Ministerif at the time of obtaining the approval there is no
Chairman; | - and |
(4) |
(5) A person under the age of twenty-one years who has com-
pleted his apprenticeship, such apprenticeship having
been for a term of not less than three years,
The definition of the term "improver' in section 6 of the |
principal Act is amended- |
improver."
who " in the second line thereof New. |
the words | works as an improver and "; and |
7. Section
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Is | Section 19 of the principal Act is amended as follows .- |
Records cmd notices
I. | In subdivision | |
place " in the second |
line, the words " | in the factory " are inserted; and |
m. I n subdivision | the words '' a copy of " are struck out. |
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by striking out the words | or a true copy thereof." | |
Q. Section |
indentures of | apprenticeship " in subdivision (g) thereof. |
If any factory is not provided with proper closet accommo- fraction of twenty persons of the male sex, and one closet at least, separate from the closets for the male sex, for every twenty or fraction of twenty persons of the female sex employed therein, or if the approaches to the closets provided for one sex are not properly separated from the approaches to the closets provided for the other sex, such factory shall, for the purposes of section
32 of the principal Act, be deemed to be defective by reason of being insuffi- ciently provided wit h privies.
dation.
dation in the proportion of one closet at least for every twenty or | |
the word " and " at the end of | the second line thereof and the whole | |
of the third line. | ||
by striking out the words " by the workers inhaled to an inj urious | extent" in subdivision | '' such dust is inhaled, or l&ble to be inhaled, by the workers." | |
I. By striking out the words "and in particular " in sub- |
division | and |
1976, |
1905, |
subdivision
( b ) thereof.
of the principal Act is amended | ||
by striking out subdivision | |
the word | eighteen " f w the word " sixteen " in the second line |
thereof, | |
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I. By inserting | subdivision | subsection (1) |
in the second line thereof; and |
11. By striking out the words "each day on which he avails himself of the provisions of this section " in paragraph (c), subdivisionIII., and substituting therefor the words
" | such extra working." |
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occupation, or calling, or group or part, in respect whereof a Board |
has been appointed, shall, nor shall the wife or son or daughter of
Board.
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any such employer- |
( a ) Directly or indirectly, for any consideration, keep or receiveas a boarder or lodger any person who is in the employ of
such employer and whose wages are fixed by a Board; or
(6) Have any share or interest in the keeping of a lodging-housein which any such person boards or lodges.
(2) This section shall not apply when the place where the person boards or lodges isa hotel, club, lodging-house, private dwelling- house, coffee-house, fish or oyster shop, restaurant, or chemist's shop, nor to any employment where it is customary to provide board and lodging for employ&.
Penalty, Ten Pounds.
Section 81 of the principal Act is amended as follows :- |
I. I n subdivision | forward " in the second |
line, the words | such record " are inserted, and the words |
" a true copy thereof," in the third line, are :truck out: |
place " m the second |
line, the words | in the premises where he is so engaged," |
are inserted: |
m. In subdivision ( f j the words | a copy of" are struck out. |
amended by inserting the words | within three years previous to |
being so appointed," after the word " been " in subsection
3, and
also after the word | been " in subsection 4. |
after the word " shall," in the first line of subdivision |
subject to section
65." (2) The said section
93 is further amended by the addition thereto
ef the following subdivision :-
:L: | ; |
,.nd |
subdivision
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subdivision m. which shall be paid to children, young |
persons, and wo.men respectively, in respect of time above such inaximum worked in any week elsewhere than in a factory occupied by the employer: |
I. By striking out the first ten lines thereof and substituting |
therefor the following :- |
95. (l) The Board, for the purpose of | determining |
the lowest prices or rates of payment which may be paid, shall take such evidence as it deems sufficient, including evidence of any determination of a similar Board in the State of Victoria, and shall take into consideration-
and-
By adding the following subsection :- |
(2) The Board shall ascertain what prices or rates are fair and reasonable as the lowest prices or rates to be paid, taking into consideration the evidenc6 and the matters and things mentioned in subsection(1) hereof, and shall make their determination aecor-
dingly.
thereof it is enacted as follo~vs | :- |
96. (1) A Board may report to the Court of Industrial |
Appeals that it is unable to decide as to the exercise and | ||
discharge of its powers and duties under section 93, or any of such powers and duties specified in its report. | ||
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of the appointment of the Chairman of such Board, the Minister may report such failure to the Court of Industrial Appeals. | ||
(4) Upon receiving a report from a Board or the Minister as aforesaid, the Court, according to the nature of the case, may exercise and shall discharge the powers and duties of the |
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the Board which have not been exercised and discharged by the Board, or the powers and duties which the Board might have exercised and discharged if it had been appointed.
(5) The Court shall embody its decision in a report.
the Court- |
(a) Shall be forwarded to the Minister;
( h ) Shall be forthwith published by the Minister in the
Gazette ;
(c) | Shall come into force on the fourteenth day after such publication, or on a later date (if any) fixed by the Court, of which date notice is given in the |
such publication; and |
( d ) Shall thereafter be deemed to be and shall have the same force and effect and application as if, according to the nature of the case, it were the determination or a determination or other act of the Board mentioned in subsection (l)or sob- section(2) hereof, or.of the Board which was to have been appointed.
I. Inserting after the word " Chairman " in the sixth linetoappmnticee.
thereof the words | or by the Minister if at the time of |
obtaining the approval there is no Chairman ";
Chairman " in the seventh line |
thereof the words "or the Minister, as the case may
be "; and
24. In Division VII. of Part VIII. of the principal Act the |
following amendments are made :- |
inex- |
perienced " is inserted; | |
and (6), after the word " | slow" |
the word " | inexperienced " is inserted; |
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the word | inexperience " is inserted; |
slow " the words | or inex- |
perienced " are inserted.
amended by substituting for subdivision |
subdivision :- |
publication, or on a later date (if any) fixed by the Board,
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of which date notice is given in the
Gazette at the time ofsuch publication.
X. By striking out the word " and" at the end of the sixth line and the whole of the seventh .and eighth lines thereof;
11. By substituting for subdivision( b ) thereof the followingsubdivision :-
( b ) Remain in force until suspended under section
107, or altered pursuant to an order of the Court ofIndustrial Appeals;
and
111. By striking out subdivision(c) thereof and inserting thefollowing subdivision :-
(c) When a subsequent Board is appointed the determination of the previous Board shall remain in force until the coming into force of the determination of such subsequent Board.
Bevocation of
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the word " child " and substituting therefor the words " son or |
daughter." |
Amendment of
I. | By striking out subdivision |
following :- |
and
(d) Shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the |
(4 | publication by the Minister in the notice indicating the alterations. |
words | or any indenture of apprenticeship " after the word |
exhibited " in subdivision (d) thereof, | |
the words " | indenture of apprenticeship " before the word " book " |
in subdivision (d) thereof. |
the principal | ||
Act is amended so as to read as follows :- |
(c) Exercising the functions conferred upon it by section
96.
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amended by striking out the words " and referred to in subdivision | 32. Subsection |
section | 'in the third line thereof. |
out " subsection I 11." in subdivision (a) thereof. |
34. Section
139 of the principal Act is amended by strikingsection 139 =eltaed.
out subsection |
thereto the following subsections :- |
(2) The Minister shall publish in theGazette a notice indicatingthe alterations.
the |
f0urteent.h day a,fter such publication.
after the word | Act" in the first line thereof the following:-- |
" and, notwithstanding anything in this | Act, all amounts recover- |
able under or by virtue of this Act." |
37. | The Third Schedule to the principal Act is amended- | |
I. By inserting under the words " THIRD SCHEDULE " the
Registr'tiOn '"'
words " REGISTRATION | FEES | "; |
used " in the eighth line thereof |
the following:-", | such power not being under one- |
half horsepower nominal,"; and
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i I. By adding the following at the end thereof :--" For thepurposes of this Schedule, in computing the number of persons employed in
a factory, no son or daughter of the occupier thereof shall be counted."
38. (1) The notice required by section 19, subdivision (c), ofNotiee~8fflredin
the principal Act, shall state the times for starting work and |
for ceasing work for the day, and the times for commencing and
accordingly.
starting work, or after the time for ceasing work, or during the '' | . | |
interval for meals, which applies to him, as such time is stated in the notice referred to in subsection |
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kept clear in the vicinity of any engine, machine, or machinery therein as is sufficient to enable any person to work, attend to, and clean the same without risk or injury to himself or any other person. Penalty-Twenty Pounds. |
40. Every employer, in any process, trade, business, occupation
or calling, or group or part, for which | |
determination under section |
(a) The names of all persons so employed in the first mentioned
week;
( b ) The days in that week on which such persons were respectively
so employed; | and |
(c) The length of time during which such persons were respec-
tively so employed on such days respectively.
Penalty-For | the first offence, Five Pounds; and for any subse- |
quent offence, Twenty Pounds.
Apprenticeship to
AC | t or this Act- | ||
I. No person shall, after the passing of this Act, he capable of entering into indentures of apprenticeship or becoming apprenticed after he attains the age of twenty years; and | |||
of this Act, except pnrsuant to section 97, subsection (l),
his indentures of apprenticeship shall no longer bind the of the principal Act, attains the age of twenty-one years |
parties thereto, except as regards anything theretofore done |
or omitted. |
(2) This section shall only apply in respect to persons apprenticed
to a process, trade, business, occupation, or calling, or part thereof,
for which a Board is appointed.
Additional r uire- 42. (1) Every indenture of apprenticeship entered into after the
apprentice.
(2) Every indenture of apprenticeship entered into after the passing of this Act shall contain a covenant that the employer will instruct the person thereby apprenticed in the particular process, trade, business, occupation, or calling carried on by the employer.
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(3) The requirements of this sectioil are in addition to the require-
ments of sections
ments of section 41 of this Act.
(4) This section shall only apply in respect of persons apprenticed to a process, trade, business, occupation, or calling, or part thereof, for which a Board is appointed. '
Penalt y-Ten | Pounds. |
43. (1) The Governor may, by an order published in theGazetle, Generalformofinden-
prescribe a form of indenture of apprenticeship which shall be so |
framed as to be adaptable to any process, trade, business, occupation,
NIW. calling, or part or parts of any of them.
(2) After the expiration of one month from the publication ofsuch order no employer shall take an apprentice to any process, trade, business, occupation, or calling, or part or parts thereof for which a Board is appointed, except under indentures in the form prescribed by such order; and indentures contravening the pro- visions of this section shall be void.
(3) Any notice under section 93 of the principal Act prescribing a form of indenture shall, after the expiration of the said month,have no effect as to any indentures thereafter entered into.
(4) Notwithstanding anything in this section a Board may, by a notice made and published under the said section
93, prescribe how any blank spaces in the form prescribed under this section are to be filled up, and in that. case an indenture shall be deemed not to be in the form prescribed by the Governor under this section unless the blank spaces are so filled up.
Penalty-Twenty | Pounds. |
determination of the previous Board, with or without alterations, | |
the requirements of subsection (1) of section 105 of the rjrincipal | Act a s to publication shall be dekmed to be complied i i t h u s n |
publication by the Minister in the |
dirrmiesed |
employ6 in consequence of- |
I. Such employ6 becoming or acting in the capacity of a member
under the Act.
of any Board: |
a |
member of a Board:
111. Anything arising out of or consequent upon such employ6
being or acting in the capacity of a member of a Board:
IV. Such
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W. Such employd becoming a party to, or being summoned or called as a witness in, any proceedings under the principal Act or this Act: orv. Any evidence given or anything said or done or omitted to be said or done by an employ6 as a party to, or as a witness in, any such proceedings.
(2) I n any proceedings for an offence against this section, if i t is
proved that an employ6 was dismissed from any employment under the defendant within two months after any of the acts or matters mentioned in subsection (l) hereof, the burden of proving that such dismissal was not in consequence of such act or matter shall be upon the defendant.
(3) Proceedings for an offence against. this section may be com- menced and prosecuted eithcr by the employd alleged to have been dismissed or by an inspector; and in either case: if the defendant is convicted, the dismissal shall be deemed to be a wrongful dismissal, and the Special Magistrate or Justices may, in addition to any penalty for the offence, award such sum as he or they deem proper by way of damages m d costs, which sum may be recovered by the employ& or by the inspector on his behalf, in the same way as a pellalty imposedfor ail offence against the principal Act.Penalty-Twenty Pounds.
(l) Whenever in the principal Act or this Act i t is pro- |
costs of and incidental to the complaint which he or they think proper. |
(3) All orders made by such Magistrate or Justices on the hearing of the complaint may be enforced as provided by sectionl66 of the piincipal Act, or by the said Ordinance or an); other Act relating to the duties of Justices of the Peace as to summary proceedings.
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is convicted of any offence against this or the principal | |
regula tio h thereunder may, in addition to imposing a fine or penalty | |
or ot.her punishment for such offence, order that the offender shall pay to any person in respect of whom such offence was committed, and who is or has been in the employment of such offender, any sum which, to the satisfaction of the Magistrate or Justices, is shown to be due from the said offender to the said person for wages, salary, payment for overtime, or tea money, or otherwise in connection with such employment. |
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(2) Any sum ordered to be paid under this section may be recovered by the said person, or by an inspector on his behalf, in the same manner as a penalty imposed under the principal Act for an offence against that Act; and if any fine or penalty is imposed for the offence mentioned in subsection ( l ) hereof, such sum shall, for the purposes of recovering the same, be treated as part of such fine or penalty.
(3) Section 166 of the principal Act shall apply in respect of any sum ordered to be paid under this section, as if such sum were a pecuniarv penalty nnder the principal Act.
employers. and a majority consisting of at least three-fifths of the |
employ& in any trade, in any locality defined in the agreement
;;~;o~~P,";~all hereinafter mentioned, may enter into an agreement with respect to
employes. all or any of the matters which would be within the jurisdiction of a wages board if appointed for the said trade, and may transmit such agreement to the Minister.
(2) Upon receipt of the agreement the Minister shall refer the same to the Chief Inspector, who shall thereupon ascertain whether or not it has been signed by a majority of the employers and of the employ& respectively as above provided in the said trade in the said locality, and shao report thereon to the Minister.
(3) If the Chief Inspector reports in the affirmative on the question so referred to him, the Minister shall thereupon transmit the agree- ment to the Court of Industrial Appeals.
(4) The Court shall hear any person to be affected by the proposed agreement, either in support of | or in opposition to such agreement, |
and consider whether or not the agreement-
(a) Is consistent with the provisions of the principal Act and
this Act; |
( b ) May lawfully be observed and enforced; and(c) Should be confirmed;
and shall report its decision on those questions to the Minister.
(5) If the decision of the Court is in the affirmative on both the questions mentioned in subsection (4) hereof, the agreement-
( a ) Shall forthwith be published by the Minister in theGazette ;
( b ) Shall come into force on the fourteenth day after such publica-tion, or on a later date (if any) fixed by the Court, of which date notice is given in the
Gazette at the time of such publication; and
( c ) Shall thereafter be deemed to be and shall have the same force and effect, as regards all employers and employhs in the said trade in the said loctality, as if it were the determina- tion or other act of a wages board; and
(d) Shall remain in force until altered by a later agreement between employers and employ& in the said trade, and in the said locality, published under this section, or
by a determination or other act of a wages board appointed for the said trade, and having jurisdiction to make a deters
mjnatio~ | to apply in the said locality. |
(6) The provisions of this section shall apply to any trade except
a trade for which a wages board is by the principal Act or this Act
required to be appointed or as to which a resolution of both Houses of Parliament has, befbre or after the passing of this Act, been passed approving of the appointment of a Hoard.
trade " includes any process, trade, |
business, occnpatjon, or calling.
character made or to be made by any Hoard or Chairman, and all | |
correspondence connected with the making of any such determination or order shall forthwith be forwarded to and filed in the office of the Chief Inspector, and be open to inspection by any person inte- rested in or affected by any such determination or order. |
IVages Boards fb,. Localities Outside the Metropolitan Awa.
(2) Thereupon such Board shall be appointed, and Parts VIII.,
IX., and X. of the principal Act (except sections 153 to 156, inclusive), as amended by this Act or any other Act, the provisions of this Act from and including section 40 to the end hereof (except section 48), | and all other provisions of the principal | that Act which may be necessary for giving effect to the said |
resolution, or to give effect to or enforce any determination or other Act of the said Board, shall apply to the said locality or area. | ||
In the name and on behalf of His Majesty, I hereby assent to
this Bill.
DAY H. BOSANQUET, Governor.
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