Conciliation and Arbitration
No. 38 of 1968
An Act providing for Increases in the Salaries of certain Persons holding office under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1967.
[Assented to 18 June 1968]
BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1968.
(2.) The Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1967 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1968.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Salary and allowances of Commissioners.
3. Section 16 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Ten thousand four hundred” and “Nine thousand four hundred” and inserting in their stead the words “Twelve thousand eight hundred and fifty” and “Eleven thousand eight hundred and fifty”, respectively.
Salary and allowances of Conciliators.
4. Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Eight thousand four hundred” and inserting in their stead the words “Nine thousand six hundred and fifty”.
Salary increases prior to date of commencement of this Act.
5.—(1.) In respect of the period from and including the twenty-third day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-six, to and including the day before the day on which this Act comes into operation, the Principal Act shall be deemed to have had effect as if—
(a) for the words “Ten thousand four hundred,” and “Nine thousand four hundred” in sub-section (1.) of section 16 there were substituted the words “Eleven thousand two hundred and fifty” and “Ten thousand two hundred and fifty”, respectively; and
(b) for the words “Eight thousand four hundred” in sub-section (1.) of section 21 there were substituted the words “Nine thousand and fifty”.
(2.) The Consolidated Revenue Fund is appropriated to the extent necessary to pay to the Senior Commissioner and the Commissioners of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and to the Conciliators appointed under the Principal Act the increases in salary provided for by the last preceding sub-section.