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This provisional regulation requires every trade union (including branches and similar associations) to provide prescribed statistical returns to the Commonwealth Statistician or an authorised agent within 28 days when so required. The forms (T.U.12–T.U.16) collect wages, hours and membership/unemployment data; individual returns are stated to be confidential and must be signed and transmitted to the Statistician.
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STATUTORY RULES.
1912. No. 137.
PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE “CENSUS AND STATISTICS ACT 1905.”
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Census and Statistics Act 1905 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.
Dated the 4th day of July, 1912.
DENMAN,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
KING O’MALLEY,
Minister of State for Home Affairs.
RETURN OF TRADE UNION STATISTICS.
1. (1) The Secretary, or Acting Secretary, or other Officer of every Trade Union shall, within 28 days after being required in writing by the Statistician or by an Agent and Correspondent duly appointed under Statutory Rules 1912, No. 12, so to do, furnish to the Statistician the particulars set out in the prescribed forms of return of Trade Union Statistics.
(2) In order to comply with this Regulation, the Secretary, Acting Secretary, or other Officer, as the case may be, of every Trade Union shall fill in the particulars in the prescribed forms, and shall sign the form and transmit it, either by post or otherwise, to the Statistician or to such Agent andCorrespondent as aforesaid.
(3) In this Regulation “Trade Union” includes—
(a) Every Trade Union, whether registered or unregistered;
(b) Every Branch of a Trade Union;
(c) Every Association of the nature of a Trade Union or having objects similar to those of a Trade Union; and
(d) Every Branch of an Association coming within paragraph (c).
C.8810.—Price 3d.
(4) The prescribed forms of return of Trade Union Statistics are as: follows:—
T.U. 12.
State Office No.
Class No.
Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics (Labour and Industrial Branch), Melbourne.
TRADE UNION STATISTICS.
(The information referred to hereon is required under the authority of the Census and Statistics Act 1905.)
Wages, Hours of Labour, and Employment.
Individual Returns are regarded as Strictly Confidential and are not published separately.
Full Name of Trade Union or Branch
District or Locality covered by Trade Union or Branch
1. In what year was your Union or Branch first organized?
2. Please state the current Union rates of wages for each of the more important occupations or trades followed by members of your Branch.
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