STATUTORY RULES.
1942.
No. 92.
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 second
day of March, 1942.
GOWRIE
Governor-General.
By His
Excellency’s Command,
E. J.
WARD
for and
on behalf of the Minister of State
for
Defence Co-ordination.
National Security
(Employment of Women) Regulations.
Citation.
1. These Regulations
may be cited as the National Security (Employment of Women) Regulations.
Administration.
2. These
Regulations shall be administered by the Minister of State for Labour and
National Service.
Employment
of females.
3.—(1.) Any female
may be employed in the Department of Munitions or the Department of Aircraft
Production or, with the approval of the Director-General of Munitions or the
Director-General of Aircraft Production, by any employer, on work, not
requiring the skill of a tradesman, customarily performed by males, or,
notwithstanding anything contained in any law or any instrument (including any
award, order, determination or agreement) having effect by virtue of any law,
on work, not requiring the skill of a tradesman, which is work reserved to males by
any such law or instrument.
(2.)
After the coming into operation of Regulations to be made under the National Security Act
1939-1940 governing the employment during the present war, of females on work
reserved to males, whether by force of law or because of widely accepted
custom, the employer of any female employed under this regulation shall be
liable to pay to that female, as from the commencement of the employment, the
rates of pay prescribed by or under those Regulations, and, pending the
prescription by or under those Regulations of rates of pay and conditions of
employment in respect of that female, the rates of pay and conditions of her
employment shall be as determined by the Minister of State for Munitions or the
Minister of State for Aircraft Production.
* Notified in the Commonwealth
Gazette on 2nd March, 1942.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
1605.—Price 3d.