Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act of 1964 (Qld)

352 (Queenziuntr ANNO TERTIO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 35 of 1964 An Act to Amend "The Mines Regulation Act of 1964" in certain particulars [ASSENTED TO 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1964] 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. (1) Short title . This Act may be cited as " The Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act of 1964." (2) Principal Act. " The Mines Regulation Act of 1964 " is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) Collective title . The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively cited as " The Mines Regulation Act of 1964." 2. Amendment to s. 18 . Section eighteen of the Principal Act is amended by, in subsection (2), omitting paragraph (b) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:- " (b) (i) A person of or above the age of sixty-five years shall not be appointed a District Workers' Representative.

Mines Regulation Act Amendment Act of 1964, No. 35 353 (ii) A District Workers' Representative who attains the age of sixty-five years shall thereupon cease to be such a representative: Provided that if a person who, immediately prior to his attaining the age of sixty-five years, is a District Workers' Representative is able and willing to continue as such after he has attained that age and the Minister is satisfied that it is desirable that he so continue, the Minister may, from time to time and whether or not the period for which such person was appointed or last appointed as such prior to his attaining the age of sixty-five years has expired, continue the appointment of such person as a District Workers' Representative for a period not exceeding six months but so that any such period shall not extend beyond the thirtieth day of June or the thirty-first day of December next following the date on which such person attains the age of sixty-six years, whichever of those dates first occurs, and thereupon such a person shall be and continue to be a District Workers' Representative accordingly. The first proviso to subsection (3) of this section shall apply in relation to a person whose appointment has been continued pursuant to this proviso as if each such continuat on were an appointment of a District Workers' Representative made pursuant to this subsection." 3. Amendment to s. 22 . Section twenty-two of the Principal Act is amended by, in subsection (1), omitting the words " employed by the owner of the mine concerned " and inserting in their stead the following words:- " employed- (a) in the case of a District Workers' Representative, by the Crown; and (b) in the case of a Local Workers' Representative, by the owner of the mine concerned."