Industrial Arbitration (Living Wage) Amendment Act 1929 (NSW)

INDUSTRIAL ARBITRATION

(LIVING WAGE) AMENDMENT

ACT.

Act No. 40, 1929.

An Act to make further provision with respect to

Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1926, as amended by subsequent Acts, and certain other Acts; to repeal the Industrial Arbitration (Living Wage Declaration) Act, 1927, and the Industrial Arbitration (Sus- pension of Living Wage Declaration) Act, 1929; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 13th December, 1929.] BE

the declaration of living wages; to amend the Industrial Arbitration Ac1-, 1912, the

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 (Living "Wage) Amendment Act, 1929."

(2) This Act shall be read and construed with the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912, and the Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1920, and Acts amending these Acts.

2 . The Industrial Arbitration (Amendment) Act, 1920, is amended by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub­ section one of section seven after the words " in the State " the following words :—

and, in the case of adult male employees, on the requirements of a man and wife with one child under the age of fourteen years.

3 . (1) For the first declaration to be made after the commencement of this Act of the living wages for adult male and adult female employees, the provisions of this section shall have effect.
(2) The Commission shall declare the living wages for adult male and adult female employees within one month after the commencement of this Act.

(3) In fixing the amount of the living wage for adult male employees on the requirements of a man and wife with one child under the age of fourteen years the Commission shall add to the amount stated in its judg­ ment of the twenty-fifth day of October, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty-nine, as being sufficient for the requirements of a man and wife, the extra cost of
maintaining one child under the age of fourteen years.

Such extra cost shall be determined from a consideration of such judgments, declarations, and reports of tribunals and Royal Commissions of the Commonwealth and of New South Wales relating to basic or living wages, and of such other information relating thereto in the possession of the Commission at the commencement of this Act, as the Commission deems proper to be considered for the purpose of fixing the amount of the living wage for adult male employees in accordance with the provisions

of this section. (4)

(4) The Commission shall fix the amount of the living wage for adult female employees at such percent- age of the living wage for adult male employees as it deems proper.

4 . The Industrial Arbitration (Living Wage Declara- tion) Act, 1927, and the Industrial Arbitration (Suspen- sion of Living Wage Declaration) Act, 1929, are hereby repealed.