National Security (Engineering Industry Man Power Committee) Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 482.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE DEPUTY OF 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 Thirty first

day of October, 1942.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Defence.

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National Security (Engineering Industry Man Power Committee) Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Security (Engineering Industry Man Power Committee) Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“engineering industry” includes the engineering and metal working and fabricating industries in all their branches, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, also includes the branches thereof and the classifications of employees employed therein respectively set out in—

(a) the Interim Metal Trades Award made by the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration on 5th December, 1941;

(b) the Aircraft Award made by that Court on 4th August, 1938;

(c) the Motor Body and Coach Building Interim Award made by that Court on 15th December, 1939; and

(d) the agreement entered into by the Amalgamated Engineering Union (Australian Section) and others with the Minister of State for Supply and Development on 4th December, 1939;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1942.

7236.—Price 3d. 25/7.10.1942.

“skilled employee” means any person employed in the engineering industry;

“the Committee” means the Engineering Industry Man Power Committee constituted under these Regulations.

Engineering Industry Man Power Committee.

3.—(1.) There shall be a Committee to be known as the Engineering Industry Man Power Committee which shall consist of the Director-General of Man Power (who shall be the Chairman of the Committee) and seven other members appointed by the Minister who shall respectively represent—

(a) the Department of the Army;

(b) the Department of Air;

(c) the Department of the Navy;

(d) the Department of Munitions;

(e) the Department of Aircraft Production;

(f) industries engaged in the production of munitions and other goods essential to the defence of the Commonwealth; and

(g) the Amalgamated Engineering Union.

(2.) The Chairman shall convene meetings of the Committee as and when required, and, in any event, within seven days after the date of the receipt by him of an application therefor signed by a member of the Committee.

(3.) At all meetings of the Committee—

(a) the Chairman (or, in his absence, a member elected by the members present) shall preside;

(b) all questions shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present;

(c) the Chairman (or, in his absence, the member presiding) shall have a deliberative vote and, in the case of an equality of voting, shall also have a casting vote; and

(d) five members shall constitute a quorum.

Deputies of members.

4. Any member of the Committee may appoint a person to act as his deputy in the event of his absence from any meeting of the Committee from any cause, and the deputy, while so acting shall have and may exercise all the powers and functions of the member.

Functions of Committee.

5. The Committee shall investigate all questions which arise concerning the shortage of skilled employees and the allocation of those employees between industry and the Defence Force, and may make such recommendation to the Minister arising out of any such investigation as it thinks just.

Powers of Minister.

6—(1.) The Minister may, upon receipt of a recommendation of the Committee, direct—

(a)that any skilled employee shall be exempt from service with the Defence Force;

(b) that any member of the Defence Force shall be transferred to industry and thereafter be exempt from service with the Defence Force;

(c) that any person employed in industry shall be available for transfer to the Defence Force and shall cease to be exempt from service with the Defence Force,

and may cancel or vary any such direction.

 

(2.) Any such direction may be made subject to such conditions and reservations as the Minister thinks fit.

(3.) Any such direction shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained in any other law.

(4.) Subject to the last preceding sub-regulation, nothing in these Regulations shall be construed as restricting the exercise of any other power under any other law of the Commonwealth relating to the exemption of persons from service in the Defence Force.

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