Transport Workers (Waterside) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1930. No. 38

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRANSPORT WORKERS ACT 1928-1929.

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 Transport Workers Act 1928-1929, to come into operation on the fourteenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirty.

Dated the ninth day of April, 1930.

(Sgd.) STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Minister of State for Markets and Transport.

  

Transport Workers (Waterside) Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Transport Workers (Waterside) Regulations.

Times and places for picking up transport workers, being waterside workers.

2.—(1.) On and after the fourteenth day of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirty, transport workers (being waterside workers) may be engaged and picked up at the port of Melbourne at the following times and places, namely:—

(a) For oversea vessels:—

Hours—

Between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. and between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays (inclusive);

Between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Saturdays.

Places—

(i) The vacant land abutting on the road which runs from the Princes Pier to the Hew Railway Pier, Port Melbourne, at a point approximately midway between those piers;

(ii) The place between the Railway Goods Office at the entrance to the Railway Pier, Williamstown, and the Passenger Pier, Williamstown; and

(iii) For work on Yarraville wharfs only—the place known as Wischer’s Corner, Yarraville.

 

(b) For Interstate vessels:—

Hours and Places—

Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. on Mondays to Saturdays inclusive, at the wharfs in accordance with the practice prevailing at the date of the making of this regulation; and from Mondays to Fridays inclusive between the hours of 9.15 a.m. and 10.15 a.m. and 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. and on Saturdays between the hours of 9.15 a.m. and 10.15 a.m. at—

(a) a place between Berths Nos. 10 and 11 on the north side of the Yarra river; and

(b) at a place adjacent to Berth No. 7 on the south side of that river.

(2.) A person shall not engage or pick up a transport worker (being a waterside worker) at the port of Melbourne, and transport workers (being waterside workers) at the port of Melbourne shall not assemble or congregate for the purpose of being engaged or picked up, at any time or places other than the times and places specified in this regulation.

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.