Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1914 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION.

No. 5 of 1914.

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1911.

[Assented to 10th October, 1914.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1914.

(2.) The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1911 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1914.

2.After section fourteen of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Appointment of Deputy President by Governor-General.

“14a. Whenever the President is out of the Commonwealth or is for any reason unable to appoint a deputy, the Governor-General may appoint any Justice of the High Court or Judge of the Supreme Court of a State to be the deputy of the President in any part of the Commonwealth, and in that capacity to exercise, during the pleasure of the Governor-General, such powers and functions of the President as the Governor-General thinks fit to assign to such deputy; but the appointment of a deputy shall not affect the exercise by the President himself of any power or function.”