Waterside Employment Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 72.

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 twelfth 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.

Priority in selection of workers.

2.—(1.). No person shall give priority in employment, engagement or picking-up 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, at ports in the Commonwealth to which Part III. of the Transport Workers Act 1928-1929 applies, except to transport workers (being waterside workers) who—

(а) are available for employment, engagement or picking-up at those ports; 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 such work.

Penalty: Ten pounds or imprisonment for one month.

(2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation it shall not be an offence to employ, engage or pick up, in priority to the persons specified in the last preceding sub-regulation, for work of the nature specified in that sub-regulation, persons who—

(a) are returned soldiers or returned sailors as defined in section eighty-one A of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1930; and

(b) were at any time during the first six months of the year 1930, the holders of liceeascs 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.

1691.—Price 3d.

Picking-up places on private property—announcement of

3.—(1.) Not less than half an hour 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 Transport Workers Act 1928-1929 applies, a notice of the picking-up shall be posted in a conspicuous position outside that place by the person proposing to effect the picking-up.

(2.) At the conclusion of any picking up in which the last preceding sub-regulation applies the person who has affected the picking-up shall, in a manner capable of being heard or understood by all present, announces the fact that the picking-up is finished.

(3.) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision 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 picking-up place specified in the last preceding regulation may, after the posting at that place of a notice in accordance with that regulation announcing that a picking-up will be effected, be entered by any person—

(а) to whom priority is required to be given under regulation 2 of these Regulations; or

(b) who is a returned soldier or a returned sailor as specified in sub-regulation (2.) of that regulation,

for the purpose of being picked up for work of the nature specified in sub-regulation (1.) of that regulation and any such person may remain in that place until the conclusion of the picking-up is announced in accordance with the last preceding 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 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.