Waterside Employment Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 122.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation under the Transport Workers Act 1928-1929 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this thirtieth day of September, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

PARKER MOLONEY

Minister of State for Transport.

 

Amendment of Waterside Employment Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1931, No. 101, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 5 of the Waterside Employment Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in the proviso to sub-regulation (1.) after the word “port ” (second occurring) the words “and available for engagement or picking up at the times and places prescribed for engagement or picking up”;

(b) by inserting after the proviso to sub-regulation (1.) the following proviso:—

“Provided further that, where the Licensing Officer at any port to which this regulation applies is of opinion that, by reason of—

(a) any unforeseen circumstances;

(b) the hour at which any loading or unloading is likely to be finished; or

(c) difficulties of transport,

sufficient transport workers (being waterside workers) for the loading or unloading of any particular ship are not readily available, he may permit the employment of transport workers (being waterside workers) for such period, in excess of ten hours in any period of twenty-four hours, as he considers justified.”; and

2940.—Price 3d.

 

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) The period of employment specified in sub regulation (1.) of this regulation shall mean any period for which a transport worker is, under or in pursuance of any award of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, entitled to payment, exclusive of waiting time and time spent in travelling, but inclusive of any period of cessation for meals occurring during the period of employment.”.

Regulation 4 of the Waterside Employment Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “at the premises of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia at Boundary-street, Spring Hill,”, and inserting in their stead the words “at the premises known as the Brisbane Waterside Labour Bureau, situated in Lower Boundary-street, Brisbane”.

 

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