National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 145.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

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 1939-1940.

Dated this twenty-fifth day of March, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

Amendments of the National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations.

Part not to apply in certain cases.

1. Regulation 18 of the National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations is amended by adding at the, end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(2.) Nothing in this Part shall prevent the payment or acceptance of remuneration at an altered rate where the alteration is made—

(a) for the purpose of maintaining the difference between the rate of remuneration prescribed, in respect of the employment, by law or by award, order or determination of an Industrial Authority or by industrial agreement and the rate at which remuneration in respect of the employment was, in accordance with the practice of the employer, paid immediately prior to the tenth day of February, 1942;

(b) by an authority of a State having power to fix the rate of remuneration of any officer or employee of the State or of any authority of the State, pursuant to an application or a reference made to the authority prior to the commencement of this Part or for the purpose of an adjustment in accordance with a variation in the cost of living;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 76, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 81 and 110.

2095.—Price 3d. 8/23.3.1942.

 

(c) by an industrial agreement entered into, or an award, order or determination made by an Industrial Authority, with the approval of the Minister or the Industrial Authority concerned, in respect of matters which the Minister is satisfied were, with a view to the execution of the agreement, the subject of negotiation between the parties to the agreement immediately prior to the commencement of this Part;

(d) by industrial agreement between the employers and the employees organizations concerned or, in default of agreement, by award, order or determination of an Industrial Authority, for the purpose of adjusting rates of payment for piecework where the output of the employee is altered by reason of a variation in the nature of the material or commodity on which the employee works or by reason of a variation in the operation involving the piecework, so that the earning power of the employee will not be reduced by reason of any such variation, but so that that earning power as at the tenth day of February, 1942, will not thereby be increased.

(e) in consequence of the extension of the application of an award, order, determination or industrial agreement to persons not subject thereto at the commencement of this Part but to whom the extension of the application of the award, order, determination or industrial agreement was then in contemplation; or

(f) after the Minister has stated that he is satisfied that the alteration is necessary to remove an anomaly, by an authority of a State having power to fix the rate of remuneration of any officer or employee of the State or of any authority of the State or by an industrial agreement.

(3.) Nothing in this Part shall prevent the payment or acceptance of a bonus in respect of any employment where, immediately prior to the tenth day of February, 1942, it was customary for a bonus to be paid in respect of that employment, and provided the principles governing the determination of the amount of the bonus are the same as those which governed the determination of the bonus last paid before the tenth day of February, 1942.”.

Persons not to absent themselves from employment.

2. Regulation 19 of the National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “or” (last occurring); and

(b) by inserting after paragraph (c) of that sub-regulation the following paragraph:—

“; or (d) attendance to union business,”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.