Transport Workers (Waterside Workers) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 53.

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 fifteenth 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.) At ports in the Commonwealth to which Part III. of the Transport Workers Act 1928-1929 applies, priority shall be given, in the employment, engagement. or picking up 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, to those of such workers available for employment, engagement or picking up at those ports, who are members of the organization known as the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia, an organization which is bound by an existing award of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration applicable to such employment.

(2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation, persons who are returned soldiers or returned sailors as defined in section 81a of the Commonwealth Conciliation andArbitration 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 be employed, engaged or picked up for work of the character specified in that sub regulation.

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

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

1392.—Price 3d.

 

Picking up places on private property—announcement of.

3.—(1.) Where any person proposes to effect, in a picking up place on private property at any port to which Part III of the TransportWorkers Act 1928-1929 applies, the picking up of transport workers (being waterside workers), he shall, not less than half an hour before the picking up is to commence, post a notice of the picking up in a conspicuous position outside the picking up place and shall, at the conclusion of the picking up, announce, in a manner capable of being heard or understood by all present, the fact that the picking up is concluded.

(2.) Any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.

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 places or a returned sailor as specified in sub-regulation (2) of that regulation shall be entitled for the purpose of being picked up for work of the nature specified in sub-regulation (1) of regulation 2 of these Regulations to enter, for the purpose of being picked up, any picking up place specified in the last preceding regulation after the posting of a notice in accordance with that regulation announcing that a picking up will be effected and to 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 from that place, prior to the conclusion of the picking up any person to whom that sub-regulation applies, shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

 

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