Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1915 (Cth)

 

COMMONWEALTH CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION.

No. 35 of 1915.

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1914.

[Assented to 13th September, 1915.]

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 1915.

(2.) TheCommonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1914 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 1904-1915.

 

Amendment of s. 55.

2. Sub-section (1.) of section fifty-five of the Principal Act is amended by adding, at the end of paragraph (b)thereof, the following paragraph:—

“and (c) Any association of not less than one hundred employees engaged in any industrial pursuit or pursuits whatever, together with such other persons, whether employees engaged in any industrial pursuit or pursuits or not, as have been appointed officers of the association and admitted as members thereof.”

Validation of registration of associations registered before commencement of this Act.

3. Every association—

(a) registered, before the commencement of this Act, as an organization under the Commonwealth Conciliation and ArbitrationAct 1904, or under that Act as amended by any subsequent Act; and

(b) constituted (either originally or by any change of constitution or alteration of rules) in accordance with the provisions of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904, or of that Act as amended by any or all of the following Acts, namely:—The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1909, the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1910, the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1911, the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1914, the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act (No. 2) 1914, and this Act,

shall be deemed to have been validly constituted as from the date of such registration, and the registration shall be deemed to have constituted the association an organization as effectively as if this Act had been in force at the date of such registration.