National Security (Industrial Peace) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 271.

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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 twenty-second day of November, 1941.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

H. V. EVATT

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.

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Amendment of the National Security (Industrial Peace) Regulations.

After regulation 6 of the National Security (Industrial Peace) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Preference of employment in clothing trades.

“6a.—(1.) The provisions of paragraph (a) of sub-section (1.) of section 40 of the Act shall not be construed so as to limit the powers of the Court as regards any industrial dispute as to industrial matters in connexion with the employment of persons engaged or to be engaged in or in connexion with the manufacture of clothing.

(2.) Any provision in any award or order of the Court, made prior to the commencement of this regulation, relating to an industrial dispute as to industrial matters in connexion with the employment of persons engaged or to be engaged in or in connexion with the manufacture of clothing shall, as on and from the date of that commencement, be as valid and effectual as if this regulation had been in force when that provision was included in the award or order, or, if the award or order was made prior to the ninth day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, as if the provision had been included in the award or order on that date and this regulation had then been in force.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 22nd November, 1941.

 Statutory Rules 1940, No. 290, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 26 and 49.

5709.—Price 3d.

 

(3.) For the purposes of this section the expression ‘manufacture of clothing’ means—

(a) the making, repairing or cleaning, in whole or in part, of wearing apparel (other than wearing apparel consisting wholly or substantially of leather or rubber, boots, shoes and slippers, and felt hats for male wear); and

(b) the making, in whole or in part, of articles for personal or household use from cotton, linen, wool or silk or any substitute of cotton, linen, wool or silk or any two or more of those materials,

but does not include the knitting of wearing apparel or the making of articles for furnishing.”.

 

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