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CRIMES ACT 1914 SECT 30J
30J Industrial disturbances, lock-outs and strikes
- (1)
- If at any time the Governor-General is of opinion that
there exists in Australia a serious industrial disturbance
prejudicing or threatening trade or commerce with other
countries or among the States, he may make a Proclamation
to that effect, which Proclamation shall be and remain in
operation for the purposes of this section until it is
revoked.
- (2)
- Any person who, during the operation of such
Proclamation, takes part in or continues, or incites to,
urges, aids or encourages the taking part in, or
continuance of, a lock-out or strike:
- (a)
- in relation to employment in or in connexion with
the transport of goods or the conveyance of passengers
in trade or commerce with other countries or among the
States; or
- (b)
- in relation to employment in, or in connexion with,
the provision of any public service by the
Commonwealth or by any Department or public authority
under the Commonwealth;
shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on
conviction to imprisonment for any period not exceeding one
year.
- (3)
- For the purposes of this section:
employee includes any person whose usual occupation
is as an employee.
employer includes any person whose usual
occupation is as an employer.
lock-out includes the closing of a place or part
of a place of employment, if the closing is unreasonable,
and the total or partial refusal of employers, acting in
combination, to give work, if the refusal is unreasonable,
or the total or partial suspension of work by an employer,
if the suspension is unreasonable, with a view to compel
his employees, or to aid another employer in compelling
his employees, to accept any term or condition of
employment.
strike includes the total or partial cessation
of work by employees, acting in combination, if the
cessation is unreasonable, as a means of enforcing
compliance with demands made by them or by other employees
on employers, and the total or partial refusal of
employees, acting in combination, to accept work, if the
refusal is unreasonable, and also includes job control.
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