National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 48.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this tenth day of March, 1944.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

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Amendments of the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations.

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on the seventeenth day of March, 1944.

Central Coal Authority.

2.—(1.) Part 1a of the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations is repealed.

(2.) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by this regulation, every award or order made by the Central Coal Authority appointed under the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations and in force immediately prior to the commencement of this regulation shall continue in force subject to the Coal Production (War-time) Act 1944.

Establishment of Local Reference Boards.

3. Regulation 11 of the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations is amended by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(a)in relation to matters affecting members of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation (other than those members who are excepted by the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner by order in pursuance of the Coal Production (War-time) Act 1944)—as are specified by the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner; and”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 25, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 38, 159, 212, 262, 270, 281 and 299; 1942, Nos. 100, 311, 422 and 525; and 1943, Nos. 278 and 295.

1624.—Price 3d 8/10.3.1944.

 

Application and construction of National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations.

4.—(1.) Nothing in the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations shall authorize the Central Reference Board, or a Local Reference Board exercising powers in respect of such parts of Australia as are not specified in pursuance of sub-regulation (3.) of this regulation to deal with any industrial dispute or matter in so far as it affects members of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees’ Federation (other than those members who are excepted by the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner by order in pursuance of the Coal Production (War-time) Act 1944).

(2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations, the Central Reference Board or a Local Reference Board may deal with any industrial dispute or matter in so far as it affects members of the Federation who are so excepted.

(3.) The National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations (except regulations 17, 18, 19 and 20) shall be applied and construed as if, in respect of such parts of Australia as the Commonwealth Coal Commissioner specifies by order, any reference to the Central Coal Authority were a reference to the Central Industrial Authority appointed under the Coal Production (War-time) Act 1944.

(4.) Nothing in regulation 18 of the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations shall make ineffective any award or order of the Central Industrial Authority or of a Local Industrial Authority made in pursuance of the Coal Production (War-time) Act 1944.

Application of certain regulations to Central Industrial Authority.

5. The provisions of paragraph (c) of regulation 7 and of sub-regulations (3.), (4.) and (4a.) of regulation 8 of the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations shall apply to and in relation to the Central Industrial Authority appointed under the Coal Production (War-time) Act 1944 as if any reference in those provisions to the Central Reference Board were a reference to that Central Industrial Authority.

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By Authority: L. F.