Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

RURAL WORKERS ACCOMMODATION ACT 1938

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

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   1.      This Act may be cited as the Rural Workers Accommodation Act 1938.1  
   2.      The Shearers Accommodation Act 1901 of the State of New South Wales shall cease to apply to the Territory.  
   3.      In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears—“Accommodation” includes buildings, equipment and facilities for use in connexion with accommodation or with the supply, preparation or consumption of meals; “Agricultural occupation” includes all work in connexion with dairying and the sowing, raising and harvesting of crops of grain, fodder, fruit or any farm produce on agricultural holdings, farm and orchards and such other work thereon as is prescribed; “Employer” includes every master or other person employing or having the control or superintendence of any rural worker or of any agricultural or pastoral operation; “Industrial award” means an award or determination of a tribunal authorized to fix wages and conditions of employment of rural workers in the Territory; “inspector” means an inspector under section 4; “Owner” includes the person entitled to the receipt of the rents or profits of, and a lessee of, any premises; “Pastoral occupation” includes all work in connexion with the management, rearing and grazing of horses, cattle or sheep, all operations in connexion with the shearing of sheep and the scouring, sorting and pressing of wool upon pastoral holdings or farms, all general labour incidental thereto and such other work upon pastoral holdings or farms as is prescribed; “Premises” means any land, building or place on or in which any rural worker is employed or accommodated; “Rural worker” and “worker” includes every person employed for any period exceeding twenty-four hours by an employer in an agricultural or pastoral occupation.  
   4.      (1) There may be 1 or more inspectors for the purposes of this Act.  
   4A.     4A. (1) The Chief Executive shall issue to an inspector an identity card that specifies the inspector's name and office, and on which appears a recent photograph of the inspector.  
   5.      (1) An inspector may, at any reasonable hour—  
   6.      (1) Subject to this Act, accommodation proper and sufficient for the comfort and health of the rural workers who are employed and reside on the premises during their employment shall be provided in buildings free of all cost to the workers:  
   7.      (1) The persons occupying any building, tent, structure or room provided for the accommodation of rural workers shall, subject to any provision to the contrary in any industrial award, keep the same clean while they are in occupation thereof.  
   9.      (1) Where an inspector is of opinion that any person has not complied with the requirements of this Act he shall, by notice in writing to that person, direct him to fulfil within the time specified in the notice such of those requirements as have not been fulfilled and as are specified in the notice.  
   10.     (1) Every employer shall, not less than seven days before the commencement of any work of a seasonal or periodic nature and in connexion with which he proposes to employ workers not regularly and continuously employed by him and in respect of whom the provisions of paragraphs (d) to (p) of subsection (2) of section six of this Act have application, forward by post or deliver to the Chief Executive notice of the date of the proposed commencement of the work and particulars of its nature:  
   11.     Any person who—  
   12.     (1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of this Act or fails to carry out any obligation imposed on him by any provision of this Act, shall be guilty of an offence against this Act.  
   13.     The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette, exempt, to the extent, and during the time, specified in the notice, any person from compliance with any of the requirements of this Act in any case where he is of the opinion, in the circumstances, that the provision made by that person in respect of the accommodation of rural workers is satisfactory.  
   14.     The Executive may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and, in particular, for prescribing—  
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