Commonwealth legislation

Waterside Employment Regulations Suspension Regulations

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

189 of 1940

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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This regulation temporarily stops (suspends) the Waterside Employment Regulations made in 1932 from having any legal effect.

What it does:

Hits 'pause' on the 1932 regulations (and their 1933 amendments) that controlled how wharf labourers were hired and managed.
The underlying Transport Workers Act remains in force, but these specific rules about waterside employment stop applying until the suspension is lifted.

Who it affects:

Waterside workers (wharfies, stevedores) and the companies that employ them to load/unload ships.
Government agencies regulating the waterfront.

Why it matters: Made in August 1940 during World War II, this suspension was likely an emergency wartime measure. It allowed the government to bypass or replace the usual employment rules for dock workers—possibly to streamline shipping for the war effort or to transfer control to wartime administration bodies.

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Waterside Employment Regulations Suspension Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 189.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRANSPORT WORKERS ACT 1928-1937.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Transport Workers Act 1928-1937.

Dated this thirty-first day of August, 1940.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. M. HUGHES

Attorney-General.

Waterside Employment Regulations Suspension Regulations.

Short title.

These Regulations may be cited as the Waterside Employment Regulations Suspension Regulations.

Suspension of Waterside Employment Regulations.

The operation of the Waterside Employment Regulations (being Statutory Rules 1932, No. 10, as amended by Statutory Rules 1933, No. 12) is hereby suspended.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 31st August, 1940.

By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

5486.—Price 3d.

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