Australian Boot Trade Employes Federation v Whybrow and Co [1910] HCA 8

HH. C. or A.

1910. "

AUSTRALIAN Boor TRapE Emptoyes FEDERATION v, Wuysrow & Co.

'HIGH COURT {1910.

"The exceptions are :— "(a) Apprentices as hereinafter defined. "(b) Lads under 21 not apprenticed, but under the con- ditions hereinafter stated. "(e) Aged, slow, and infirm workers as hereinafter defined.

"2. An 'apprentice' means any male person under the age of 21 years who is duly apprenticed to an employer for any time not Jess than four years.

"He is deemed to be duly apprenticed if he is bound by indenture of apprenticeship in the form hereinafter preseribed, containing a covenant on the part of the employer to teach him one at least of the following seven functions or processes includ- ing the working of the machinery used by the employer in connection therewith respectively :—"

(Seven functions or processes were then set out.)

" Or any other function or functions, process or processes, that may at the time of the indenture be approved as a subject for apprenticeship by the Board of Reference hereinafter mentioned.

"Or any other function or functions, process or processes, that may be allowed by the Board of Reference (with such consents and on such terms as the Board may think fit) to be substituted for the subject of apprenticeship mentioned in any indenture.

«3. No lad not apprenticed shall be employed or retained in employment after he has attained the age of sixteen, or for a longer period than twelve months or on any work except such as is comprised under the following heads :—Errands, sweeping, last- carrying, sorting, heel nail feeding, drawing tacks.

"4, The minimum rate of wages to be paid to lads whether apprenticed or not shall be—"

(Then followed a scale of rates beginning at 7s. for lads up to 15 years of age, and ascending to 48s, for lads from 204 to 21 years of age.)