TRANSPORT WORKERS.

No. 43 of 1937.

An Act to amend section twelve of the Transport Workers Act 1928–1929.

[Assented to 13th December, 1937.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Transport Workers Act 1937.

(2.) The Transport Workers Act 1928–1929 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act. as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Transport Workers Act 1928–1937.

Cancellation of licences.

2. Section twelve of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “six months” and inserting in their stead the words “one month”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (6.) the word “six” and inserting in its stead the words “one month”; and

(c) by inserting after sub-section (6.) the following sub-section:—

“(6a) Where a licence issued to any person has been cancelled prior to the commencement of this sub-section, and the period of ineligibility of the person has not expired, the licensing officer by whom the licence was cancelled, or, where the cancellation has been dealt with on appeal under this section, the Court which heard the appeal, may reduce the period of ineligibility to a period which is not less than the greater of the following periods:—

(a) the expired period of the ineligibility; or

(b) the period of one month.”.