RULES, REGULATIONS, BY-LAWS, &c. OF THE STATE OF OF GENERAL UTILITY. Factories and Shops Acts. ["Gazette," August 31st, 1904, page 2811.] REGULATIONS UNDER THE FACTORIES AND SHOPS ACTS. WHEREAS by the Factories and Shops Acts it is among other things enacted that the Governor in Council may, by Order published in the Government Gazette, from time to time make, alter, and repeal regulations for the purposes therein mentioned, and generally for carrying into effect the provisions of the said Acts: Now therefore His Excellency the Governor in Council, under the above recited power, makes the Regulations following prescribing the manner in which appeals against a Determination of a Special Board shall be instituted (that is to say) :— MODE OF APPEALING TO THE COURT OF INDUSTRIAL APPEALS. (1) Every appeal under the provisions of section 17 of the Factories and Shops Act 1903 (No. 1857) against the Determination of a Special Board shall be instituted by the person entitled to appeal and desiring so to do, forwarding to the Minister of Labour a notice, in writing, containing the prescribed particulars of such desire. (2) The notice of appeal shall state the character in which the appellant claims to appear as such, and when the appeal is by a single employer or group of employers employing not less than 25 per centum of the total number of workers shall set out particulars of the number of workers employed by each appellant. The notice shall be written in legible characters, and shall clearly and distinctly set forth or otherwise identify separately the item or items in the Determination against which appellant is appealing, and his grounds of objection to such item or items, (3) The notice of appeal shall be signed in a legible manner by each appellant, and the full address and occupation of each appellant shall be given opposite each signature. (4) Such notice shall name some address for service, not more than 5 miles from the Genenal Post Office, where notices, orders, summonses, documents, and written communications may be left for the appellant or appellants, and all notices, orders, summonses, documents, and written communications served or left at such address shall constitute effective service on the appellant or appellants, if there be more than one. (5) Two copies of the notice of appeal shall be forwarded with the original, but in such copies it shall not be necessary to give more than five of the appellants' names and addresses. (6) The Chief Inspector of Factories, Work-rooms, and Shops, and the Registrar of the Court of Industrial Appeals may allow any employer or employé in the trade affected by a Determination against which an appeal has been lodged to make a copy of the notice of appeal for the purpose of entering an appearance against such appeal. (7) Any employer or employé in the trade affected by the Determination which is the subject of an appeal who desires to be heard by the Court against such appeal, shall, seven days at least before the hearing, notify the Registrar of the Court of Industrial Appeals of such desire, and shall give his full name, his occupation, and address in such notification. (8) The Chief Inspector of Factories, Work-rooms, and Shops shall attach to such notice of appeal a list containing the names and addresses of the Members of the Special Board the Determination of which is the subject of appeal, and also, when necessary, a certificate giving the number of persons employed in the trade affected by such employer or group of employers, and also the total number of persons employed in such trade as indicated in Appendix A of the Chief Inspector's last Annual Report issued prior to such appeal, or in the case of appeal by the workers in any trade, a certificate giving the number of persons employed in such trade as indicated in Appendix A of the Chief Inspector's last Annual Report. (9) Non-compliance with these Regulations shall not prevent the hearing of an appeal or of opposition thereto unless the Court so orders. And the Honorable Sir Samuel Gillott, His Majesty's Minister of Labour for the State of Victoria, shall give the necessary directions herein accordingly. ROBERT S. ROGERS, Clerk of the Executive Council. Rules of the Supreme Court. ["Gazette," November 16th, 1904, page 3644.] It is ordered as follows: On and after the 20th day of December, 1904, the Rules hereinafter mentioned shall be repealed, except so far as regards actions, causes, and matters then pending, and on the said 20th day of December, 1904, the Rules |