National Security (Supplementary) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 307.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*

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 Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1943.

Dated this twenty-first day of December, 1943.

WINSTON DUGAN

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. B. CHIFLEY

for and on behalf of the Minister of

State for Defence.

 

Amendment of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations.

Additional payment in respect of Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Regulation 118 ‡ of the National Security (Supplementary) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.), after the word “employee”, the words “, not being an employee working under a shift system,”; and

(b) by adding at the end of that sub-regulation the following paragraph:—

“; or (c) where the employee, being an employee working under a shift system, regularly works on certain Saturdays only in a cycle of weeks—additional pay equivalent to the difference between the amount ordinarily payable to him for working one full shift and the amount that would be payable to him on an ordinary working day for working a shift similar to any shift for which he is rostered on the day for which the payment is so to be made.”;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 21st December, 1943.

Statutory Rules 1940. No. 126, as amended to date. For previous National Security (Supplementary) Regulations are footnote to Statutory Rules 1943, No. 256 and also Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 267, 268, 269, 275, 279, 283, 288, 289, 290 and 299.

‡ Added by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 290.

7737 —Price 3d.

 

(c) by inserting after sub-regulation (3.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(3a.) If any dispute arises between an employer and an employee with respect to the operation of any provision of this regulation, an Industrial Authority having jurisdictionto determine disputes or claims in respect of rates of pay or conditions of employment in relation to the work on which the employee is employed may, on application by the employer or any organization of employers or employees to which the employeror employee belongs hear the dispute and advise the parties as to the termson which the dispute should be settled and, failing acceptance of those terms, shall hear and determine the dispute and the parties thereto shall comply with the determination.”;

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the definition of “employee” and inserting in its stead the following definitions:—

“‘employee’ means a person—

(a) who is employed at or in any establishment, factory, mine, dockyard or workshop, and who is engaged, wholly or partly, in production for war or defence purposes, or in the repair or overhaul of munitions of war;

(b) who is engaged in connexion with the construction of works for defence purposes or of works declared by the Minister to be essential for the defence of the Commonwealth; or

(c) who is employed in connexion with—

(i) any transport service; or

(ii) the production or distribution of coal, electricity or gas,

necessary for the carrying on of any production, repair, overhaul, constructionor work specified in the preceding paragraphs of this definition or for any other purpose associated with the prosecution of the war,

but does not include a person referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this definition—

(d) who is employed in an administrative or executive capacity or who is engaged on professional work; or

(e) who, being employed in any Commonwealth or State Department, or by any authority of the Commonwealth or of a State, is engaged on clerical work;”;

“‘Industrial Authority’ has the same meaning as in regulation 4 of the National Security (Holidays and Annual Leave) Regulations;”.

 

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