Waterside Employment Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 64.

 

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 eighth day of June, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK BRENNAN

for Minister of State for Transport.

 

Waterside Employment Regulations.

Short title.

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

Order of selection of workers.

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

(a) 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 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; and

(b) are available for employment, engagement or picking-up at ports in the Commonwealth to which Part III. of the Transport Workers Act 1928–1929 applies,

shall be given priority in employment, engagement or picking-up for such work at those ports.

(2.) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of the last preceding sub-regulation shall be guilty of an offence,

Penalty: Ten pounds, or imprisonment for one month.

(3.) Persons who—

(a) 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; and

(b) are returned soldiers or returned sailors as defined in section 81a of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1930,

may, notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation, be employed, engaged or picked up for work of the nature specified in that sub-regulation.

1555.—Price 3d.

 

Picking-up places on private property—announcement of.

3.—(1.) Where a picking-up place is situate on private property at any port to which Part III. of the Transport Workers Act 1928–1929 applies, the picking-up of transport workers (being waterside workers) at that place shall not be effected unless, not less than half an hour before the picking up is to commence, a notice of the picking-up has been posted in a conspicuous position outside the picking-up place by the person effecting the picking up.

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

(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 place.

4.—(1.) Any person—

(a) 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 (3.) of that regulation,

may, for the purpose of being picked up for work of the nature specified in sub-regulation (1.) of that regulation, enter—

(c) any picking-up place specified in the last preceding regulation after the posting at that place of a notice in accordance with that regulation announcing that a picking-up will be effected; and

(d) remain in that place, until the conclusion of the picking-up is announced in accordance with that 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.