STATUTORY
RULES.
1941. No. 41.
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 February, 1941.
Governor-General.
By
His Excellency’s Command,
for Minister of State for Defence
Co-ordination.
Amendments
of National Security (Employment) Regulations.
Definitions.
1.
Regulation 3 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended by
omitting from the definition of “the Minister” the
word “Munitions”
and inserting in its stead the words “Labour and
National Service”.
Training
and employment of persons for the production of munitions and supplies.
2.
Regulation 4 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended by
omitting the words “of State for Munitions”.
Regulation
of engagement of certain employees.
3.
Regulation 5 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended by
omitting the words “Director of Labour, Department of Munitions or by a person
thereto authorized by the Director of Labour” and inserting in their stead the
words “Secretary,
Department of Labour and National Service or by a person thereto authorized by
the Secretary”.
Marginal
rates for tradesmen on production of munitions.
4.
Regulation 6 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from
paragraph (a)
of sub-regulation (4.) the words “Painter or” and inserting in their stead the
words “or a Ship Painter and”;
(b) by omitting from
paragraph (b)
of sub-regulation (4.) the words “in
the State of
New South Wales”;
and inserting in their stead the words “(being
an iron worker as specified in the first column of the Fourth Schedule to these
Regulations)”; and
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette
on ,
1941.
Statutory Rules, 1940, No. 287, as
amended by Statutory Rules 1941, No. 29.
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(c) by
omitting from that paragraph, the words “such employee” and inserting
in their
stead the words “employee in the State of New South Wales”.
First Schedule.
5. The
First Schedule to the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended by
omitting the words “Ship Painter and/or Docker” and inserting in their stead
the following:—
“Ship
Plumbers.
Ship
Painters, Writers, Grainers and Gilders.”.
Fourth
Schedule.
6. The Fourth Schedule to the National
Security (Employment) Regulations is amended—
(a)
by omitting the words “and/or” (second occurring) and inserting in their stead
the words “or a Ship Painter and”; and
(b) by
adding, at the end thereof, the following:—
“Timber Workers in shipyards, as specified in awards
made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration on the seventh
day of April, 1937, the thirteenth day of October, 1937, the sixth day
of March, 1939, and the fourth day of March, 1940, in respect of Disputes No.
183 of 1932, No. 225 of 1936, No. 241 of 1936, No. 347 of 1934, No. 80 of
1936, No. 236 of 1936, No. 537 of 1937 and No. 235 of 1939, as varied to
date.
| Marginal rates prescribed for the respective
classifications in such award plus 3s.
per week special allowance.”.
|
Fifth
Schedule.
7. The Fifth Schedule to the National
Security (Employment) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting the
words “and/or” and inserting in their stead the words “or a Ship Painter and”;
(b) by adding, at the
end thereof, the following:—
“Ship Plumbers in the State of New South Wales as
specified in an award made by the State Industrial Commission of New South
Wales on the second day of June, 1939 and published in the New South Wales Industrial Gazette, Volume 55, page 1702 and as varied to date.
| The rate prescribed in such award plus
d. per hour
special allowance.
|
Ship Painters, Writers, Grainers and Gilders in the
State of New South Wales as specified in an award made by the State
Industrial Court of New South Wales on the twenty- ninth day of June, 1934,
and published in
the State Industrial
Gazette of New South
Wales, Volume 45, page 1306 and as varied to date.
| The rates prescribed for the respective
classifications in such award plus
d. per hour
special allowance.”.
|
8. Notwithstanding anything
contained in these Regulations, the pay of any employee who, at the commencement
of
this regulation,
was employed
in any of the classifications inserted in the Fourth Schedule or the Fifth
Schedule, as the case may be, to the National Security
(Employment) Regulations, and was in receipt
of a higher marginal rate (exclusive of hourly hiring and
shift allowance) or, as the case may be, a higher rate than is specified for
that classification in the second column of either of those
Schedules shall not be reduced by reason
of these Regulations.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston,
Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.