STATUTORY
RULES.
1944. No. 149.
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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 eleventh day of October, 1944.
W. DUGAN
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. B. CHIFLEY
for Minister of State
for Labour and National Service.
Amendments ofthe
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.
Force
and effect of certain decisions of Women’s Employment Board.
2.—(1.) All instruments relating to
the employment of women which the Women’s Employment Board, constituted under
the Women’s Employment Regulations, has issued or purported to issue as its
decisions or variations of its decisions at any time on or after the thirtieth
day of September, 1943, shall, by virtue of this regulation, have full force
and effect for all purposes, according to their tenor, in respect of all work
to which the instruments respectively apply or purport to apply and, subject to
this regulation, the provisions of those Regulations, as amended by these
Regulations, shall apply to and in relation to those instruments in like manner
as they apply to and in relation to decisions and variations given or made
under those Regulations, and for that purpose those instruments shall be deemed
to be decisions within the meaning of those Regulations.
(2.) Nothing in the last preceding
sub-regulation shall affect the rights of any person under a judgment obtained
by him prior to the commencement of this regulation.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th October,
1944.
6197.—Price
3d.
Amendments
of regulations.
3. The Women’s Employment
Regulations are amended—
(a) as set out in the Schedule to these
Regulations;
(b) by repealing regulation 16; and
(c) by omitting the word “Board”
(wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “Court”.
4. Regulation 5 of the
Women’s Employment Regulations is repealed and the following regulations are
inserted in its stead:—
Pending
Applications.
“5. Any application under these
Regulations which was pending immediately prior to the commencement of this
regulation may be considered and decided by the Court as if the application had
been made to the Court, and any evidence given, prior to the commencement of
this regulation, in relation to any such application, may be considered, in
relation to that application, by the Court, as if the evidence had been given
before it.
Application
of National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations.
“5a.
Part V. of the National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations shall, so
far as applicable, apply with respect to any employment to which any decision
in force at the commencement of this regulation applies as if the references in
those Regulations to the tenth day of February, 1942, were references to the
date of the commencement of this regulation.”.
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THE
SCHEDULE.
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AMENDMENTS
OF THE WOMEN’S EMPLOYMENT REGULATIONS.
Regulation. | Extent of Amendment. |
Regulation 4.......... | Omit definition of “the Board”. |
Add, at the end of the definition of “the Court”, “as
constituted of a Judge of that Court designated by the Chief Judge of that
Court for the purposes of these Regulations”.
|
Regulation 5b........ | Omit from sub-regulation (1.) “and of the Chairman
of the Board”.
|
Regulation 5c........ | Omit from sub-regulation (2.) “Chairman of the Board
may, in relation to any decision of the Boar” insert “Court may, in relation
to any decision”.
|
Regulation 6.......... | Omit from sub-regulation (2.) “Chairman of the Board”
insert “Court”.
|
Regulation 7d....... | Omit “sent to” insert “filed in”. |
Omit “to” (second occurring) insert “in”. |
Regulation 9.......... | Omit “the Court” (first occurring) insert “the
Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration”.
|
Omit “the Court” (last occurring) insert “that Court”.
|
Regulation 9a ....... | Omit from sub-regulation (2.) “the Court” insert “the
court in which the action or suit is brought”.
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Regulation 11........ | Omit “Chairman of the Board” insert “Court”. |
Regulation 14a...... | Omit from sub-regulation (2.) “member of the Board
or to any person authorized by the Chairman of the Board” insert “person
thereto authorized by the Court”.
|
Regulation 15 ....... | Omit “Chairman of the Board” (wherever occurring)
insert “Court”.
|
Omit “Chairman” insert “Court”. |
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Authority: L. F. Johnston,
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