Australian Soldiers' Repatriation Regulations 1919 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 263.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1917-1918.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1917-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twelfth day of November, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. A. WATT,

for Minister of State for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations 1919.

(Statutory Rules 1919, No. 123.)

1. The definition of “Industrial Trainee” or “Trainee” in Regulation 3 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is amended by omitting the words “and includes an improver” and inserting after the word “workshop” the words “or Training Institution.”

2. Regulation 33 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is repealed and the following Regulations inserted in its stead:—

Soldiers’ Industrial Committees.

“33. (1) The Minister may within any State appoint in respect of any trade or calling a Soldiers’ Industrial Committee which shall consist of a Chairman and an equal number of representatives of the employers and employees respectively in the trade or calling.

(2) The Chairman shall be a person agreed upon by the representatives of the employers and employees respectively or in the absence of such agreement a person selected by the Minister.

Meetings of Soldiers’ Industrial Committees.

33a. (1) Meetings of a Soldiers’ Industrial Committee shall be held regularly.

(2) The place of any member of a Committee shall become vacant if he without leave of the Committee absent himself from two consecutive meetings of the Committee, unless he furnish reasons in writing for his absence to the satisfaction of the Committee.

(3) The Chairman of the Committee shall, upon receiving from any two members of the Committee a request to hold a special meeting, and provided the business proposed to be dealt with at the meeting is stated with the request, convene a special meeting of the Committee.

(4) The Chairman, one representative of the employers and one representative of the employees shall form a quorum for the transaction of business.”

 

3. Regulation 34 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations is repealed and the following Regulation inserted in its stead:—

Powers and duties of Soldiers’ Industrial Committees.

“34. Any such Committee when appointed may decide after trial as to suitability of a trainee for a particular calling and shall—

(a) consider opportunities for employment of soldiers or their dependants,

(b) determine the number of persons to be entered as trainees in any trade or calling,

(c) advise as to the syllabus of training to be carried out, training facilities to be adopted, and the qualifications of and salaries to be paid to Instructors,

(d) when the trainee is being trained in a training institution determine, subject to the approval of the Director of Vocational Training appointed under the Act, when the trainee shall leave the institution,

(e) assess the efficiency of the trainee at the commencement of his training and thereafter at the end of every three months, or such shorter periods as the Committee thinks fit,

(f) deal with disputes between persons entered for training in private workshops and the employer and in particular disputes as to the ruling rate of wage.”

4. After Regulation 68 of the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Regulations the following Regulations are inserted:—

Proportion of trainees to journeymen

“68a. An employer may employ in each section of the trade or calling carried on by him in any establishment one trainee for each six or fraction of six fully paid journeymen employed in that section,

Provided that if the fraction is less than three the employer shall only employ a trainee in respect of that fraction with the unanimous consent of the Soldiers’ Industrial Committee.

Provided further that no employer shall employ a trainee unless the employer has employed a fully paid journeyman continuously for at least six months immediately preceding the date of the employment or proposed employment of the trainee and continues to so employ the journeyman.

Provided also that the six months’ limitation shall not apply to new businesses established within that period.

Notification of number of trainees placed.

68b. The Department shall, upon an applicant being entered for training in any training institution or placed with an employer in a trade or calling, forthwith notify that fact to the Industrial Organization of Employees which is represented on the Soldiers’ Industrial Committee appointed in respect of that trade or calling.

Trainees to work near journeymen.

68c. A trainee in a private workshop shall as far as practicable work near a journeyman in order that he may be given every opportunity of receiving advice and instruction in the trade or calling.”

 

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