RURAL WORKERS ACCOMMODATION ACT 1938 (REPEALED) - SECT 3 3.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.

Australian Capital Territory Repealed Acts

[Index] [Table] [Search] [Search this Act] [Notes] [Noteup] [Previous] [Next] [Download] [Help]

This legislation has been repealed.

RURAL WORKERS ACCOMMODATION ACT 1938 (REPEALED) - SECT 3

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.

Inspectors

AustLII: Copyright Policy | Disclaimers | Privacy Policy | Feedback