Transport Workers (Waterside Workers) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 58.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRANSPORT WORKERS ACT 1928-1929.

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 Transport Workers Act 1928-1929, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this 22nd day of May, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. E. CULLEY

for Minister of State for Transport.

 

Transport Workers (Waterside Workers) Regulations.

Short title

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

Order of selection of workers.

2.—(1.) Priority in the employment, engagement or picking up, at ports in the Commonwealth to which Part III. of the Transport Workers Act 1928-1929 applies, of transport workers (being waterside workers) for work in or in connexion with the provision of services in the transport of goods which are the subject of trade or commerce by sea with other countries or among the States, shall be given to those of such workers who are members of the organization known as the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, an organization bound by an award of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration applicable to such employment, and are available for employment, engagement or picking up at those ports.

(2.) Persons who are returned soldiers or returned sailors as defined in section 81a. of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1930 and who were, at any time during the first six months of the year 1930, the holders of licenses under Part III. of the Transport Workers Act 1928-1929, in respect of any ports to which that Act applied at any time during that year, may, notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation, be employed, engaged or picked up for work of the nature specified in that sub-regulation.

(3.) If .any person employs, engages or picks up a transport worker (being a waterside worker) in contravention of this regulation, he shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

1479—Price 3d.

 

Picking-up place on private property—announcement of.

3. No person shall effect, in a picking up place on private property, at any port to which Part III. of the Transport Workers Act 1928-1929 applies, the picking up of transport workers (being waterside workers), unless, he has, not less than half an hour before the picking up is to commence, posted a notice of the picking up in a conspicuous position outside the picking, up place, and has, at the conclusion of the picking up, announced in a manner capable of being heard or understood by all present, the fact that the picking up is concluded.

Penalty Ten pounds

 or imprisonment for one month.

Right of entry to picking-up places.

4.—(1.) Any person to whom priority is required to be given under regulation 2 of these Regulations, or who is a returned soldier or a returned sailor as specified in sub-origination (2.) of that regulation may, for the purpose, of being picked up for work of the nature specified in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 2 of these Regulations enter, for the-purpose of being picked up, any picking up place specified in the last preceding regulation after the posting at that place of a notice in accordance with that regulation announcing that a picking up will be effected and may remain in that place until the conclusion of the picking up is announced in accordance with that regulation.

(2.) Any person who hinders or prevents the entry, in accordance with this regulation, of any person to whom the last preceding sub-regulation applies, into any picking up place specified in the last preceding regulation, and any person who ejects or attempts to eject any person to whom that sub-regulation applies, from that place prior to the conclusion of the picking up, shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

 

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