Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act Amendment Act 1973 (Qld)

673 f D' IE {!"'" __. AIN-NO VICESIMMO SECUi4DO . A " A. S CUN A.: REGINA E [ASSENTED TO 19TI-i D'-CEMBER, 1973) BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- 1. Short title an d citation , (1) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act Amendment Act 1973. (2) The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1961-1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) The Principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1961-1973. 2. A. ' of s. 4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (8) the following subsection:- " (8A) Every exemption of any person or class of person from the operation of the provisions of an award, which exemption was purportedly granted by the Industrial Court tinder the repealed Acts, shall be taken to have been duly granted under those Acts and, for so long as it subsists, or, as the case may be, subsisted shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, valid and effectual for all purposes.

674 Industrial Conciliation and ArbitrationAct, Etc., Act 1973, No. 78 Every exemption of any person or class of person from the operation of the provisions of an award, which exemption was purportedly granted by the Commission under this Act prior to the passing of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act Amendment Act 1973, shall be taken to have been duly granted under this Act and for so long as it subsists or, as the case may be, subsisted shall be, and shall be deemed always to have been, valid and effectual for all purposes.". 3. Amendment of s. 12. Section 12 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsection:- " (4) Exemption from awards. On the application of an industrial union or an employer the Commission may, by its order whereby it makes an award or by its order made subsequently, exempt from the operation of the provisions of an award any employer or class of employer and any employee or class of employee in the locality and in the calling or callings to which the award applies and any person who is engaged, whether as an employer or employee, in such calling or callings and locality at any time while the award remains in force, and may at any time on the application of an industrial union or an employer revoke an exemption so ordered.". 4. Amendment of s. 31. Section 31 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words "An award " and substituting the words " Subject to all exemptions ordered by the Commission pursuant to section 12 (4), an award ".