Waterside Employment Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 101.

 

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 1926-1929, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this sixth day of August, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

L. CUNNINGHAM

for Minister of State for Transport.

 

Waterside Employment Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Waterside Employment Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention, appears—

“returned soldiers” and “returned sailors” mean returned soldiers and 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 Act in respect of any ports to which the Act applied at any-time during that year;

“the Act” means the Transport Workers Act 1928-1929;

“waterside worker” means a transport worker who offers or is engaged for work in the loading or unloading of ships.

Priority in selection of workers.

3.—(1.) Transport workers (being waterside workers) who—

(a) are available for employment, engagement or picking-up for work as waterside workers at ports in the Commonwealth to which Part III of the Act applies; and

(b) 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 employment for that work,

shall be given priority in employment, engagement or picking-up in or for that work:

2208.—Price 3d.

 

Provided that returned soldiers or returned sailors may be employed, engaged or picked-up in or for that work in priority to the persons specified in this sub-regulation.

(2.) Any person who gives priority in employment, engagement or picking-up in or for that work except in accordance with the last preceding sub-regulation shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

Places for picking-up transport workers (being waterside workers).

4.—(1.) On and after the tenth day of August One thousand nine hundred and thirty-one transport workers (being waterside workers) may be engaged and picked-up—

at the port of Melbourne—at the following places, viz.:—

(a) for over-sea vessels—

(i) The vacant land abutting on the road which runs from the Princes Pier to the New Railway Pier, Port Melbourne, at a point approximately midway between these 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 inter-State vessels—

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

(ii) At a place adjacent to Berth No. 7 on the south side of the river; and

at the port of Brisbane, for over-sea and inter-State vessels—at the premises of the Waterside Workers’ Federation of Australia at Boundary-street, Spring Hill.

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

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

Continuance of employment.

5.—(1.) A transport worker (being a waterside worker) shall not be employed as a waterside worker for more than ten hours in any period of twenty-four hours.

(2.) Any person who employs a transport worker (being a waterside worker) in contravention of this regulation, and any transport worker (being a waterside worker) who works in contravention of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

(3.) The period of employment specified in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation shall be reckoned inclusive of any periods of cessation for meals occurring during the period of employment.

 

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