Transport Workers Act 1928
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| Transport Workers Act 1928 | |
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| Parliament of Australia | |
Long title
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| Citation | Act No. 37 of 1928 |
| Territorial extent | States and territories of Australia |
| Royal assent | 24 September 1928 |
| Status: Repealed | |
The Transport Workers Act 1928 (Cth),
Background
Following a review of the establishing act of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904), the government required that the court consider the economic effect of its industrial awards and that mandatory court-supervised ballots.[3]
Act
Amendments
The Act was amended in 1929 and 1937, by the Transport Workers Act 1929 (Cth) and the Transport Workers Act 1939 (Cth).[5]
Legacy
The Chifley Labor government replaced the Act on 22 December 1947 with the Stevedoring Industry Act 1947,[5] which was itself amended in 1948 and replaced with the Stevedoring Industry Act 1949, which was in turn amended in 1954 and replaced by the Stevedoring Industry Act 1956.[6] All Acts in this series were repealed in 1977.
References
- ^ Transport Workers Act 1928
- ^ Parliament: The Vision in Hindsight, Geoffrey Lindell, R. L. Bennett
- ^ Radi, Heather (2006) [1979, Volume 7; the print version]. "Bruce, Stanley Melbourne (1883–1967)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-8264-4566-7.
- ^ a b Federal Register of Legislation
- ^ Federal Register of Legislation
Further reading
- Maritime labour & the Transport Workers' Act, 1928-47, by Richard Morris, Publisher: Department of Industrial Relations, University of Sydney, 1989.
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