Waterside Employment Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 77.

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 WorkersAct 1928-1929, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of June, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

PARKER MOLONEY

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 CommonwealthConciliationandArbitrationAct 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 TransportWorkersAct 1928-1929.

Priority in selection to 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:

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.

1830.—Price 3d.

Picking-up place of private property—announcement of.

4.—(1.) Before the commencement of any picking-up proposed to be effected at a picking-up place on private property at any port to which Part III. of the Act applies, the person proposing to effect the picking-up shall, not less than half an hour before such commencement, post in a conspicuous position outside that place a notice of the picking-up.

(2.) The person who effects any picking-up to which the last preceding sub-regulation applies shall, at the conclusion of the picking-up, announce in such a manner as to be heard or understood by all present the fact that the picking-up is finished.

(3.) Any person who fails to post the notice or make the announcement referred to in this regulation shall be guilty of an offence.

Penalty: Ten pounds, or imprisonment for one month.

Right of entry to picking-up places.

5.—(1.) Where a notice has been posted in accordance with the last preceding regulation announcing that a picking-up will be effected at any picking-up place specified in that regulation, any person to whom priority is required to be given under regulation 3 of these Regulations or who is a returned soldier or a returned sailor may, for the purpose of being picked up for work as a waterside worker, enter and remain in that place until the conclusion of the picking-up is announced in accordance with the last preceding regulation.

(2.) Any person who—

(a) 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; or

(b) 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.