3. The Governor may from time to time direct that the wages By-monthly paydue to all workmen employed on any mine shall be paid in two or ment of wages. more instalments in each month. Every such direction shall be published in the Government Gazette, and may from time to time be altered, varied, or suspended by the Governor. Any manager who shall fail to comply with such direction shall be guilty of an offence against the principal Act. 4. The Governor may make regulations for the purposes of this Regulations. Act. By Authority: WM. ALFRED WATSON, Government Printer, Perth. [Assented to 10th December, 1904.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Truck Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1904, and shall be construed as one with the Truck Act, 1899, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. 63 Vict., No. 15, s. 6. 2. Section six of the principal Act shall not apply to any action Exemption of brought or commenced after the first day of November, 1904, for certain actions from the recovery of any sum of money due to a workman as his wages before the first day of November, 1904: And notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act, the defendant in any action brought or commenced after the first day of November, 1904, for the recovery of any sum due to a workman as his his wages before the first day of December, 1904, may make a setoff or counterclaim by reason or in respect of (a.) Any goods had or received by the plaintiff as or on account of his wages; or (b) Any goods sold, delivered, or supplied at any shop, store, house, or premises kept by or belonging to the defendant, or in the profits of which the defendant may have any share or interest; or (c.) Any goods supplied to the plaintiff by the defendant or by any person under any order or direction of the defendant or his agents. By Authority: WM. ALFRED WATSON, Government Printer, Perth. AN ACT to apply out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds to the Service of the Year ending 30th June, 1905. [Assented to 19th December, 1904.] MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, E, Your Majesty's Most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects, the Preamble. in Parliament assembled, towards making good the Supply which consent |