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

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 206.

 

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 twentieth day of September, 1940.

(SGD.) GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

 

Amendments of National Security (Employment) Regulations. 

Definitions.

1. After regulation 1 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“1a. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

‘Consolidated Metal Trades Award’ means the Consolidated Metal Trades Award made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (Serial No. 3477) and varied prior to the first day of May, 1940;

‘munitions of war’ includes the whole or any part of any ship, submarine, aircraft, tank or similar engine, arms, armament, ammunition, vehicle, weapon, bomb, torpedo, mine, or other article, material or device (whether actual or proposed) intended or adapted for use in war, and also includes machines, machine tools, tools gauges, jigs, dies, templates and moulds necessary for their production.”.

Training and employment of persons for the production of munitions or supplies.

2. Regulation 2 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “of persons so trained in connexion with the production of munitions of war or supplies” and inserting in their stead the words “, in that trade, of persons so trained”;

    

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1940, No. 128.

(b) by inserting, after sub-regulation (2.), the following sub-regulation:—

“(2a.) Where any person (other than a person who is a tradesman for the purposes of clause 5 of the Consolidated Metal Trades Award) is employed in skilled work in the engineering trade, which, prior to his being so employed, was performed by such a tradesman, that person shall, for the purposes of clause 7 of the Agreement between the Commonwealth Government, the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Employers’ Association signed at Melbourne on the eighth day of May, 1940, and published in the Gazette on the eighth day of July, 1940, be deemed to be a man trained in pursuance of that Agreement and to be an ‘added’ tradesman within the meaning of that clause.”;

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (Serial No. 3477) and varied prior to the first day of May, 1940”; and

(d) by omitting sub-regulation (4.).

Regulation of engagement of certain employees.

3. Regulation 3 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(1.) An employer not engaged in the manufacture of munitions shall not engage any employee to whom this regulation applies except in pursuance of a permit issued to the employer by the Director of Labour, Department of Munitions or by a person thereto authorized by the Director of Labour.”.

Marginal rates for tradesmen employed on production of munitions.

4. Regulation 4 of the National Security (Employment) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) all words from and including the word “manufacture” (first occurring) to and including the word “production” and inserting in their stead the words “manufacture of munitions”; and

(b) by inserting in that sub-regulation, after the words “such manufacture”, the words “or in the maintenance of plant for such manufacture”.

 

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