AP799111 - Tugboat Industry Award 1999
In this award where the context permits words importing the plural will include the singular and vice versa.
6.1 Contract towage means when a tug is towing a vessel from one location to another location where that tow or other services of a non-emergency nature has been contracted for and pre-planned by the employer.
6.2 Daily rate means 1/7th of the weekly minimum rate.
6.3 Day means 24 hours from midnight to midnight.
6.4 Emergency maintenance means work which is necessary to reinstate into service a tug which would otherwise be out of service.
6.5 Emergency operations means when a tug is called on at short notice to leave a port to assist a vessel broken down or in distress.
6.6 Employee means any person engaged or employed by an employer respondent in the classification or capacity of Master, Mate, Engineer or Rating.
6.7 Employer means any person, firm, company or statutory corporation which is named as a respondent to this award.
6.8 Firefighting means work performed on a tug which is attending a fire within or outside of port limits.
6.9 Free running voyage and Delivery voyage means when a tug proceeds from one port to another either interstate or intrastate and is not engaged in towing between ports. In addition, this definition will apply to a tug proceeding from its home port to another port to commence a contract tow or when returning to its home port on completion of a contract tow.
6.10 Hourly rate means 1/40th of the weekly minimum rate.
6.11 Month means a calendar month.
6.12 Officer means a master, a mate or engineer of a tug.
6.13 Outside work means work on a tug which proceeds to sea on a special voyage outside the limits of bays, rivers or regulated port boundaries/limits but within Australian Territorial Waters.
6.14 Rating means an employee other than an officer.
6.15 Shipkeeping means being on board in port and available for the performance of any duty.
6.16 Special voyage means a voyage for which it is necessary to set watches and will include any special free running voyage, delivery voyage, contract towage or emergency operations.
6.17 The Act means the Workplace Relations Act 1996.
6.18 The Commission has the same meaning as in the Act.
6.19 Tonnage/Power units means the sum of the gross registered tonnage figure of a tug and of the brake horse power figure of the main engine/s only of the tug(including super charged power where applicable).
6.20 Union means relevantly the Australian Maritime Officers Union (AMOU), Australian Institute of Marine and Power Engineers (AIMPE) or Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and unions refers to the unions collectively.
6.21 Weekly minimum rate means the weekly rate prescribed in 9.3.1.
