The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

CRIMINAL CODE ss.534 173
(a) Compels or attempts to compel any person employed in
any manufacture, trade, business, or occupation, to depart
from his employment, or to return his work before it is
finished; or
(b) Prevents any person who is not employed from accepting
employment from any other person; or
(2) Uses violence to the person or property of another, or uses
threats or intimidation of any kind to another, or by any
physical act molests or in any way obstructs another-
(c) For the purpose of inducing any person to belong to any
club or association, or to contribute to any common fund,
or to pay any fine or penalty; or
(d) On account of any person not belonging to any particular
club or association, or not having contributed or having
refused to contribute to any common fund, or having
refused to pay any fine or penalty; or
(e) On account of any person not having complied, or refusing
to comply, with any rules, orders, resolutions, or regulations,
made or pretended to be made by any person, or
persons, or club, or association, in order to obtain an
advance of wages or to reduce the rate of wages, or
to lessen or alter the hours of working in, or to dec, rease
or alter the quantity of work done in, or to regulate the
mode of carrying on, any manufacture, trade, or business,
or the management thereof; or
(3) By violence to the person or property of another, or by
threats or intimidatio~ of any kind, or by molesting or in
any way obst~cting another, compels, or endeavours to
compel, any person carrying on any manufacture, trade, or
business, to make any alteration in his mode of carrying it
on, or to limit the number of his apprentices, or the number
or description of his journeymen, workmen, or servants;
is guilty of an offence, and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment
with hard labour for three months.
It is lawful for one or more person or persons acting in con-
templation of or during the continuance of any industrial dispute to
attend peaceably and in a reasonable manner at or near a house or place
where a person resides or works or carries on business, or happens to be,
if he or they so attend merely for the purpose of obtaining or com-
municating information, and such attending is not deemed a besetting
within the meaning of this section.
Notification or warning of an intention to lock out or strike, or of
an intention on the part of any workman or workmen to refuse to enter
into or continue in the employment of any employer, is not deemed a
threat or intimidation or molestation or obstruction within the meaning
of this section.
For the purposes of this section-
“Industrial dispute” has the same meaning as in The Industrial
Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1932.
A justice who is also an employer in the particular manufacture,
trade, or business, in or concerning which any of the offences defined
in this section is charged to have been committed cannot act as a justice
upon a charge of such an offence.