Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1973

No. 56 of 1973

AN ACT

To amend the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967–1972.

[Assented to 18 June 1973]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1973.

(2) The Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967–1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967–1973.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Cessation of operation of Act.

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and seventy-three,” and substituting the words “1st July, 1974,”.

Regulations.

4. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-section (1), after the words “weekly hiring”, the words “or upon the introduction at ports, other than permanent ports, of schemes of employment for waterside workers, whether on a weekly hiring or on some other basis,”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (a) of sub-section (2) the words “permanent ports or continuous ports” and substituting the word “ports”.