Waterside Workers Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1935. No. 79

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRANSPORT WORKERS ACT 1928-1929.*

I, 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 Twenty-second day of August, 1935.

(Sgd.) ISAAC A. ISAACS.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Acting Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of the Waterside Workers Regulations.

Endorsement of preferences.

1. Regulation 10 of the Waterside Workers Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“10.—(1.) The holder of a licence which is still in force for a port in respect of which a Committee has been appointed, and who held a licence on, and has held a licence continuously since, the eighth day of September, 1933, may request the Licensing Officer of that port to endorse his licence in accordance with this regulation.

(2.) If the holder of the licence, within fourteen days after making the request, or within such further time as the Committee from time to time determines, satisfies the Committee that, during the period of six months immediately preceding the date of his request, he followed the occupation of waterside worker as his principal means of livelihood, the Licensing Officer shall endorse upon the licence the words ‘First Preference’.

(3.) If the holder of the licence fails to satisfy the Committee within the time referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation, the Licensing Officer shall endorse upon the licence the words ‘Second Preference’.”.

2. Regulation 15 of the Waterside Workers Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“Order of preference in engagement of waterside workers.

(4.) Except as provided by sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, an employer shall have, and may exercise, freedom of selection, from among the licensed waterside workers offering for engagement, of labour for the loading and unloading of ships.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1935.

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

 

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

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