STATUTORY RULES.
1931. No. 34.
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
twentieth day of March, 1931.
ISAAC A. ISAACS
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s
Command,
PARKER
MOLONEY
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.) In the employment, engagement or
picking-up of transport workers (being waterside workers) for work in or in
connexion with the provisions of services in the transport of goods the subject
of trade or commerce by sea with other countries or among the States, at ports
in the Commonwealth to which Part III. of the Transport
Workers Act 1928-1929 applies, priority shall be given to those
of such workers available for employment, engagement or picking-up at those
ports, who are members of 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:
Provided that nothing in this regulation shall operate
to prevent the employment, engagement or picking-up of returned soldiers or
returned sailors, as defined in section eighty-one a
of the Commonwealth
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1930, who were, at any time
during the first six months of the year 1930, the holders of licences 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.
(2.) Any person who employs, engages or picks up a
transport worker (being a waterside worker) in contravention of the last
preceding sub-regulation shall be guilty of an offence.
Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.
By
Authority: H. J. Green,
Government Printer, Canberra.
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