Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1921 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION.

 

No. 29 of 1921.

An Act to amend Sections fourteen, twenty-four, and twenty-nine of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1920.

[Assented to 16th December, 1921.]

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 1921.

(2.) The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1920 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 1904-1921.

Deputy Presidents.

2.Section fourteen of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-section (1.), after the word “State”, the words “or being a barrister or solicitor or barristers or solicitors of the High Court or of the Supreme Court of a State, of not less than five years’ standing”;

(b) by inserting in sub-section (2.), after the words “to hold office during good behaviour”, the words “for the term expressed in the instrument of his appointment, or if no term is expressed then”; and

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(4.) A deputy shall receive such remuneration as the Governor-General determines and the Consolidated Revenue Fund is, to the necessary extent, hereby appropriated accordingly.”

Certified Agreement.

3.Section twenty-four of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1.) after the words “parties to the agreement”, the words “or any successor, or any assignee or transmittee of the business of a party bound by the agreement, including any corporation which has acquired or taken over the business of such party.”

On whom award is binding.

4.Section twenty-nine of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in paragraph (ba