National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 393.

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REGULATION 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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this seventh day of September, 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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

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Amendment of National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations. 

After regulation 5a of the National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Reference of applications to an Industrial Authority in Western Australia.

“5b.—(1.) The Board may refer to an Industrial Authority of the State of Western Australia for consideration and decision the whole or any part of an application under these Regulations in relation to the employment of females in that State, and the Industrial Authority shall have, for the purposes of such consideration and decision, all the powers and functions or the board and of the Chairman of the Board, and the provisions of these Regulations in relation to decisions of the Board shall apply as it the decision of the Industrial Authority were a decision of the Board.

“(2.) In considering and deciding the application or part thereof, the Industrial Authority shall have regard to any decisions of the Board in respect of similar employment.

“(3.) A copy of every decision of the Industrial Authority shall be forwarded forthwith to the Board, and the Board may review the decision within three months from the date of the decision.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 2nd April, 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1942, No. 146, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 236, 263 and 294.

5939.—Price 3d. 25/8.9.1942.

 

“(4.) On such review, the Board may confirm, vary or set aside the decision or any term thereof or may reconsider the whole or any part of the application and may make such decision thereon as if it had considered the application or part thereof in the first instance.

“(5.) Any rate of payment to be made in accordance with any decision made by the Board on such review shall apply in respect of the work done by any female as on and from such date (whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, but, where that rate is less than the rate decided by the Industrial Authority, not earlier than the date of the decision of the Board, and, in any event, not earlier than the second day of March, 1942) as the Board specifies, but any payment made to that female in respect of the work prior to the date of the decision of the Board shall be set off against any payment to be made under the decision.

“(6.) In this regulation—

‘decision’ includes variation or interpretation of a decision.”.

 

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