Waterside Workers Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 82.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRANSPORT WORKERS ACT 1928–1929.*

I, THE DEPUTY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over 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.

Dated this fourth day of August, 1937.

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of the Waterside Workers Regulations.

Order of preference in engagement of waterside workers.

Regulation 15 of the Waterside Workers Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “shall”, the words “, subject to any award or order made under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1934,”;

(b) by adding at the end of that sub-regulation the following proviso:—

“Provided that nothing in any award or order made under the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1934 shall, in the engagement of waterside workers, affect the giving of first preference to volunteer waterside workers.”;

(c) by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the word “regulation”, the words “,in so far as those provisions are not affected by any existing award or order made under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1934,”; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1937.

  Statutory Rules 1929, No. 62, as amended by Statutory Rules 1934, Nos. 29 and 146; and Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 9, 46 and 79.

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(d) by omitting sub-regulation (4.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) For the purposes of this regulation—‘volunteer waterside worker’ means a waterside worker who—

(a) was employed or enrolled for employment as a waterside worker during the period commencing on the first day of September, 1928, and ending on the twenty first day of October, 1928, and was not during that period a member of an organization, registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1928, of employees engaged in the loading or unloading of ships;

(b) was the holder of a licence issued on or before the twenty-first day of October, 1928;

(c) was the holder of a licence in force on the thirtieth day of June, 1937, or would have held a licence in force on that date but for its cancellation under section 12 of the Act; and

(d) is the holder of a licence which is still in force.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.