War Precautions (Coal) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1919. No. 147.

REGULATION UNDER THE WAR PRECAUTIONS ACT 1914-1918.

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 War Precautions Act 1914-1918, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this nineteenth day of June, 1919.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. A. WATT,

for Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of War Precautions (Coal) Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1917, No. 195, as amended by Statutory Rules 1917, Nos. 240 and 252, and by Statutory Rules 1919, Nos. 103, 119, and 141.)

After regulation 10f of the War Precautions (Coal) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Wages and conditions of employment in coal industry.

“10g. (1) The Prime Minister may, if he thinks fit, give directions as to the rates of wages of persons employed in or in connexion with the production of coal at any coal mine in the Commonwealth other than a coal mine in relation to which an order has been made by the Prime Minister in pursuance of paragraph (2) (b) of regulation 10a of these Regulations.

“(2) Where the Prime Minister has, in pursuance of sub-regulation (1) of this regulation, given directions as to the rates of wages of persons employed in or in connexion with the production of coal at a coal mine, he may by order declare that any contract or agreement, existing at the date of the order, for the supply of coal produced at that mine is varied, in such manner as is specified in the order, in relation to all coal supplied on or after the date specified in the order.”

     

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