MEMBERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS
for
Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales
Rule 3 - Constitution
PART A
The Union shall consist of an unlimited number of employees engaged in any capacity in or in connection with the selling, demonstrating, receiving, handling, hiring-out, exchange or delivery of goods of any sort and/or any kind including coupons, tickets, orders or consideration of any kind in or for any shop or warehouse and away from and without limiting the generality of the foregoing shall include "models and mannequins" including employees in any dispensary and/or premises engaged in the reception, sale or delivery of goods other than in or for any shop or warehouse and employees employed in or in connection with the handling, reception, sale or delivery of fruit and vegetables at the City Municipal Markets or wholesale fruit and vegetable distributing centres in the State of New South Wales including such wholesale fruit and/or vegetable markets as shall from time to time established in the State of aforesaid (excluding employees at wholesale markets within the County of Northumberland, the Parish of Stockton and the Shire of Port Stephens) and employees engaged in or in connection with the making, preparing, handling, putting up, reception, sale or delivery of drugs, galenicals, gut preparations, surgical, medical and hygienic dressings, pharmaceutical goods, cosmetics, perfume, toilette preparations, medicines, cotton-typed applicators, cotton balls, non-woven fabric household and industrial wiping cloths or non-woven fabric food service cloths or household chemicals and of employees engaged as operators, retouches, printers and members of any branch of the photographic professional or trade (excluding the County of Yancowinna) employees engaged in installation (other than such installation as requires trade skills) servicing, stocking, collection of money from and preparation of commodities for sale in vending machines and the like and members of any branch of the advertising profession and/or trade employed in any capacity by the industries covered by this constitution including consultants and employees providing services free or otherwise directly or indirectly in the promotion of sale by retail including messengers employed within the industry covered by this constitution and such persons who have been elected and/or appointed officers or employees or life members of the union excepting storemen, packers, clerks, watchmen, caretakers, cleaners, lift attendants, tea attendances, gardeners, gate keepers and transport workers (other than grocers, vegetable and fruit carters who are within the Newcastle area referred to in * Rule 20) and employees engaged in the manufacture of tartaric acid, cream or tartar or any by product thereof, and employees engaged in or about the grinding of drugs and/or employees in any dispensary attached to a hospital or the like, employees of Monsanto Australia Limited at Rozelle, airbrush artists in the photographic industry and artists models, persons employed in coin-operated laundries, persons within the jurisdiction of the Commercial Travellers (State) Conciliation Committee or persons engaged in the professions or trade of photography employed in hospitals or universities within New South Wales.
PART B
Without in any way limiting Part A or being limited by Part A:
The Union shall consist of an unlimited number of persons registered as Pharmacists under the Pharmacy Act 1964 or its successors, or studying for a degree in any recognised Institute of Education for the purpose of registration as a Pharmacist or working as a consultant in any capacity including Managers, Pharmacists in charge, Registered Pharmacist Assistants, or any other person employed in the dispensary of any Retail Pharmacy as a Dispensary Assistant and including all pharmacists, university pharmacy students and pharmacy graduates employed in a retail pharmacy.
* Rule 20, Kindred Union
The Union recognises and respects the existence in the County of Northumberland, Parish of Stockdown, Shire of Port Stephens, Shire of Dungog and the Municipality of Muswellbrook of a kindred registered industrial organisation of employees known as the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees' Federation of Australia, Newcastle and Northern, New South Wales. No Officer, member or employee of the Union shall organise or seek to enrol into the Union or accept as members of the Union members or persons eligible for membership in the said kindred registered industrial organisation of employees known as the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees' Federation of Australia, Newcastle and Northern, New South Wales.
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