Wire Netting Bounty Act (No. 2) 1939 (Cth)

WIRE NETTING BOUNTY (No. 2).

 

No. 81 of 1939.

An Act to amend the Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939.

[Assented to 15th December, 1939.]

[Date of commencement, 12th January, 1940.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Wire Netting Bounty Act (No. 2) 1939.

 

(2.) The Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Wire Netting Bounty Acts 1939.

2. After section nine of the Wire Netting Bounty Act 1939 the following section is inserted:—

Rates of wages and conditions of employment.

“9a.—(1.) Where, in the locality where wire netting in respect of the production of which bounty is claimed is manufactured, any standard rates of wages or conditions of employment to be paid or observed in respect of any persons employed in the manufacture of that wire netting have been—

(a) prescribed by any award, order or determination of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration or of any other industrial authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory or in any industrial agreement registered under any law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory; or

(b) declared to be fair and reasonable in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2.) of this section,

a manufacturer when making any claim for bounty in respect of the production of any wire netting shall certify to the Collector that the rates of wages and the conditions of employment observed by him in respect of the persons employed in the manufacture of the wire netting were not less favourable to the persons so employed than the rates and conditions so prescribed or declared.

“(2.) If, in the locality where wire netting in respect of the production of which bounty is claimed is manufactured, the rates of wages and conditions of employment to be paid and observed in respect of any persons employed in the manufacture of that wire netting have not been prescribed by any award, order or determination of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration or of any other industrial authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory or in any industrial agreement registered under any law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, the Minister may make application to the Chief Judge or a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration for a declaration as to what rates of wages and conditions of employment are fair and reasonable for persons employed in the manufacture of wire netting in that locality.

“(3.) If the Minister finds that the rates of wages paid to, or the conditions of employment, or any of them, observed in respect of, persons employed in the manufacture of wire netting upon which bounty is claimed were less favourable to those persons than the rates and conditions prescribed or declared as specified in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b