STEVEDORING INDUSTRY FINANCE COMMITTEE REGULATIONS (REPEAL) 1994 NO. 288

STEVEDORING INDUSTRY FINANCE COMMITTEE REGULATIONS (REPEAL) 1994 NO. 288

Statutory Rules 1994 No. 288

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations

Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Act 1977

Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Regulations (Repeal)

The Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Act 1977 (the Act) is one of four pieces of stevedoring legislation which have been amended by the Industrial Relations Legislation Amendment Act 1994 (the Amendment Act). The stevedoring legislation establishes and provides for the collection of special levies for the purpose of funding the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee (the Committee) in meeting its, obligations.

The amendments to the stevedoring legislation give effect to recommendations made by the Waterfront Industry Reform Authority and by the Committee, arising from the Governments waterfront reform program, so far as the recommendations relate to levy collection.

As a consequence of these amendments, changes were required to be made to the Stevedoring Industry Finance Committee Regulations (the Regulations), and to two other sets of stevedoring regulations.

Section 31 of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations purposes of the Act.

Part Ill of the Act, which included sections 10 to 12 of the Act, authorised the Committee to make certain payments in relation to employment of waterfront employees.

Section 10 of the Act provided that the Committee could pay the Association of Employers of Waterfront Labour (the Association) amounts to assist in meeting the costs of provision of prescribed services and amenities for waterside employees.

Section 12 provided that the Committee could make payments to the Association or to employers in respect of prescribed benefits to waterfront employees and in relation to retirement and redundancy payments to prescribed employees.

Regulation 4 of the Regulations prescribed services and amenities for the purposes of section 10 of the Act.

Regulation 5 of the Regulations prescribed as benefits travel costs and sick leave entitlements and regulation 6 provided special retirement and redundancy packages as benefits, for the purposes of section 12 of the Act.

Regulation 7 of the Regulations provided that persons employed by a number of prescribed employers were prescribed employees, for the purposes of section 12 of the Act.

With the completion of the Waterfront Reform program in October 1992, the Committee was no longer required to make these payments and Part Ill of the Act has been repeated.

Accordingly, the Regulations have been repeated as they were no longer required.

Amending subregulation 1.1 provides that the amending regulations commenced on 18 August 1994, the date on which the relevant Part of the Amending Act commenced.

Amending subregulation 2.1 has repealed the Regulations.