Coal Industry (Control) Act Amendment Act 1978 (Qld)

Que2ztsia1t r 15 ANNO VICESIMO SEPTIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 2 of 1978 An Act to amend The Coal Industry (Control) Acts, 1948 to 1965 in a certain particular ASSENTED TO 5TH MAY, 19781 BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , as follows:- 1. Short title and citation . (1) This Act may be cited as the Coal Industry (Control) Act Amendment Act 1978. (2) In this Act The Coal Industry (Control) Act of 1948 as subsequently amended is referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Coal Industry (Control) Act1948-1978. 2. Amendment of s. 18. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (2A) the following subsection:- " (211) The power and function of the Board to take such action as in its opinion is necessary or desirable to promote the welfare of workers engaged in the coal industry in the State includes power to secure severance payments to such workers whose employment in the coal industry in the State is retrenched and to that end- (a) to make such agreements with owners of coal mines and other persons as it considers necessary or desirable and to vary such agreements from time to time; and (b) to establish, maintain and administer such funds as it considers necessary or desirable to secure performance of agreements made by it pursuant to this subsection and to secure the purposes of the exercise of power to which this subsection refers.".