Re-establishment and Employment Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

 0STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. 12.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945.

Dated this twenty-second day of January  , 1947.

(Sgd) W. Dugan

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN J. DEDMAN

Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.

 

Amendment of the Re-establishment and Employment Regulations. 

After regulation 12 of the Re-establishment and Employment Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Interpretation.

“13. Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (1.) the following sub-sections:—

‘(1a). Except as provided in the next succeeding sub-section, where a person has (whether before or after the commencement of this sub-section) completed more than one period of war service, the first period of war service shall, for the purposes of this Division, be deemed to have continued without interruption until the completion of the last period of war service.

(1b.) The provisions of the last preceding sub-section shall not apply in relation to any two periods of war service completed by a person where—

(a) the interval between the two periods of war service exceeds twelve weeks, unless during that interval that person applied to be reinstated in employment in accordance with this Division or in accordance with the National Security (Reinstatement in Civil Employment) Regulations and—

(i) he had not been so reinstated and his application had not ceased to have effect at the date on which he commenced the later period of war service; or

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.

  Statutory Rules 1945, No. 181, as amended by Statutory Rules 1946, Nos. 14, 57, 85, 130, 165, 167 and 177.

373.—Price 3d. 10/20.1.1947.

 

(ii) he had been so reinstated but had been employed by his former employer for less than twenty-eight days out of the fifty-six days immediately preceding the date upon which he received a notice requiring him to perform a further period of war service; or

(b) the earlier of those periods of war service was terminated in the manner and for the purpose specified in paragraph (b)of sub-section (3.) of this section and, prior to the date upon which he received a notice requiring him to perform the later period of war service, he had failed or had ceased to engage in essential work, unless a Reinstatement Committee, on application by the person, determines that he had reasonable cause for failing or ceasing to engage in that work.’.”

 

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