Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act 1920 (NSW)

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION

(AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 19, 1920.

An A c t to provide for declarations by the Board of Trade as to living wages taking effect through­ out the State ; to amend the Acts relating to industrial arbitration; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 10th December, 1920.]

lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South	BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legis­
Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1 . ( 1 ) This Act may be cited as the "Industrial

Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1920."
(2) In this Act the expression " the Principal Act " means the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912, as amended by the Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1916, the Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1918, the Industrial Arbitration (Further Amend­ ment) Act, 1918, and the Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1919.

2 . Section twenty-four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word " twenty " in the proviso to paragraph (b) of section one and inserting in lieu thereof " twenty-one."

aforesaid for consideration at subsequent sittings of the Board of Trade presided over by the President.

3 . Section seventy-five of the Principal Act is

further amended by adding at the end of subsection
four thereof the following proviso :—

Provided that in the absence of the President the Board of Trade may by his direction hold meetings, at which the Deputy-President shall preside, for the purposes of making any investigation or inquiry under sections seventy-nine and eighty

4 . Section seventy-nine of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of subsection (In) the following new subsection : —

(lc) The Board of Trade may in its discretion at any time notwithstanding the existence of declar- ations as to living wages made by it for defined areas of the State, declare what shall be the living wages to be paid in the State or any defined area thereof to adult male employees and to adult female employees and for the purposes aforesaid may rescind or vary any existing declaration.

5 . Section eighty-six of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:— " Inc lud ing matters under sections seventy-nine and eighty of this Act for consideration at subsequent meetings of the Board of Trade."