STEVEDORING INDUSTRY.

No. 58 of 1963.

An Act to suspend the making of Declarations under section fifty-two a of the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956-1962 and to permit the payment of Attendance Money to certain Waterside Workers.

[Assented to 28th October, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1.  This Act may be cited as the Stevedoring Industry Act 1963.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the seventeenth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-three.

Act to be read as one with the Stevedoring Industry Act.

3.  This Act shall be read as one with the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956-1962.

Suspension of making of declarations with respect to port stoppages.

4.—(1.)     Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the Authority shall not, after the commencement of this Act, make a declaration under sub-section (1.) of section fifty-two a of the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956-1962.

(2.)    The Governor-General may, by Proclamation—

(a) fix a date on and after which the last preceding sub-section does not prevent the Authority from making a declaration referred to in that sub-section; or

(b) fix a date on and after which the last preceding sub-section does not prevent the Authority from making a declaration referred to in that sub-section in relation to a port specified in the Proclamation.

Entitlement to attendance money not affected by suspensions before commencement of this Act.

5.—(1.)     Any entitlement of a waterside worker to attendance money in respect of the day on which this Act is to be deemed to have come into operation or of any day after that day, not being a day that, by virtue of the next succeeding sub-section, is a prescribed day in relation to the waterside worker, is not affected by any suspension of his entitlement to attendance money that occurred before that first-mentioned day.

(2.)  Where, by virtue of a Proclamation under sub-section (2.) of the last preceding section, a port ceases to be a port in relation to which the Authority is prevented from making a declaration referred to in sub-section (1.) of that section, every day after the day on which the port so ceased is, for the purposes of the last preceding sub-section, a prescribed day in relation to any waterside worker who was registered at the port on the day on which the port so ceased.

(3.)    A day in respect of which a waterside worker is paid attendance money by virtue of this section—

(a) shall, for the purposes of sub-section (3b.) of section thirty-six of the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956–1962, be deemed not to be a day of the kind referred to in that sub-section; and

(b) shall, for the purposes of sub-section (4.) of section fifty-two a of the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956–1962, be deemed not to be a day of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) of that sub-section.