Women's Employment Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 179.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT ACT 1942.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Women’s Employment Act 1942.

Dated this fifth day of December, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. J. HOLLOWAY

Minister of State for Labour and National Service.

 

Amendments of the Women’s Employment Regulations.

Interpretation.

1.In these Regulations “Women’s Employment Regulations” means the provisions in the Schedule to the Women’s Employment Act 1942 relating to the employment of women, as subsequently amended.

Definitions.

2.Regulation 4 of the Women’s Employment Regulations is amended by inserting after the definition of “munitions of war” the following definition:—

“‘organization’ means any association or body, whether corporate or unincorporate, the objects of which include the protection of the interests of its members in industrial matters (and, in particular, their representation before Industrial Authorities) and which, in the case of an association or body of employees, is registered under any law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth;”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 7th December, 1944.

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

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