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

STATUTORY RULES.

1941. No. 300.

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 sixteenth day of December, 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.

 

Amendment of National Security (Industrial Peace) Regulations.

Reference by organizations and employee of matter likely to lead to industrial unrest.

1. Regulation 10 of the National Security (Industrial Peace) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the words “in writing,” the words “the Secretary, Department of Labour and National Service at the office of the Department in the State in which the matter arose, and”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) If the Court or a Conciliation Commissioner or a Board of Reference has not commenced to hear any industrial matter in respect of which a notification has, whether before or after the commencement of this sub-regulation, been made in pursuance of this regulation, the Minister may direct a Conciliation Commissioner forthwith to hear and determine the industrial matter, and the Conciliation Commissioner shall, notwithstanding that an industrial dispute affecting the matter does not exist, thereupon hear and determine the matter in like manner as if it were an industrial dispute.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th December, 1941.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 290, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, Nos. 26, 49 and 271.

8164.—Price 3d.

 

2. After regulation 16 of the National Security (Industrial Peace) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Certain awards of Conciliation Commissioners not to be questioned.

“16aa.—(1.) An award or order made, or a decision given, whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, by a Conciliation Commissioner in pursuance of a direction under the last preceding regulation to hear and determine an industrial dispute in relation to the Coal Mining Industry or the Shale Mining Industry shall have effect as if it were an award or order of the Central Reference Board under the National Security (Coal Mining Industry Employment) Regulations (Statutory Rules 1941, No. 25, as amended for the time being) and regulations 17 and 18 of those Regulations applied thereto or in respect thereof.

(2.) No such award, order, or decision shall be varied or set aside, and no award, order, determination or decision inconsistent with the firstmentioned award, order or decision, shall be made by any tribunal or authority except in pursuance of an application or reference made to the tribunal or authority with the consent of the Minister.”.

 

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