Mining Act Amendment Act (No. 3) 1963 (WA)

1963.] Mining (No. 3). [No. 84.

MINING (No. 3).

12° Elizabeth II., No. LXXXIV.

No. 84 of 1963.

AN ACT to amend the Mining Act, 1904-1961.

[Assented to 23rd December, 1963.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Mining Act Short title and citation.

Amendment Act (No. 3), 1963.

(2) In this Act the Mining Act, 1904-1961, is	vol. 12
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referred to as the principal Act.

Acts.

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reprint as

amended by

Act No.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act of 196/.23

may be cited as the Mining Act, 1904-1963.

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ment.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the

day on which the Industrial Arbitration Act

Amendment Act (No. 2), 1963, comes into operation.

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amended.

3. Section three hundred and thirteen of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the interpretation, "C o u r t" the following interpretation

"Commission" means the Commission in Court Session constituted under the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912; .

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amended. 4. Section three hundred and seventeen of the

principal Act is amended

(a)	by deleting the subsection designation (1) in line one; and
(b)	by substituting for the words, "of the Court" in line two of paragraph (b), the passage, "made under the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912".

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amended. 5. Section three hundred and nineteen of the

principal Act is amended

(a)	by substituting for the words, "Clerk of the Court" in line five of subsection (4) the passage, "Registrar of Industrial Unions appointed under the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912,"; and
(b)	by substituting for the words, "of the Court" in line eleven of subsection (4), the passage, "made under the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912".

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amended. 6. Section three hundred and twenty-three of

the principal Act is amended

(a) by substituting for the words, "The President", in line one of subsection (1), the words, "The Commission";

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(b) by substituting for the word, "Court" in

line five of subsection (1),	the word,
"Commission";

(c) by substituting for the word, "Court" in

line one of subsection (2),	the word,
"Commission"; and

(d) by adding a subsection as follows

(3) If the rehearing of the whole or

any part of the industrial dispute or matter has commenced before the date of the coming into operation of the Mining Act Amendment Act (No. 3), 1963, the dispute or matter shall be determined under and in accordance with the provisions of this section as those provisions existed immediately before that date.

7. Section three hundred and twenty-five of the ,mended.

principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "Court" in line three, the passage, "of Arbitration constituted under the Industrial Arbitration Act,

1912, the Commission".