STATUTORY RULES.
1943. No. 197.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1943.*
I, THE DEPUTY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the National Security Act 1939-1943.
Dated this sixteenth day of August, 1943.
WINSTON DUGAN
Deputy of the Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
E. J. HOLLOWAY
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.
Amendments of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations.†
1. Regulation 3 of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Objects.
“3. The objects of these Regulations are—
(a) to give effect to the principles embodied in, and to supplement, the arrangement in regard to dilution of boiler-making trades published in the Gazette on the 29th November, 1940, and made to meet the exceptional circumstances arising in the boilermaking trades out of the present war; and
(b) to regulate the employment of women in the boilermaking trades to which these Regulations apply,
and these Regulations shall be administered accordingly.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 17th August, 1943.
† Statutory Rules 1941, No. 104, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, No. 55.
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2. After regulation 5 of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations the following Regulation is inserted:—
Application of regulations to females.
“5a. The provisions of these Regulations other than of sub-regulations (5.) and (6.) of regulation 18, and all powers, functions, duties and obligations thereunder, shall be applicable in relation to females as well as to males”.
Central Dilution Committee.
3. Regulation 8 of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (f) of sub-regulation (4.) the words “Controller of Technical Training” and inserting in their stead the words “Director of Industrial Training”.
Local Dilution Committees.
4. Regulation 9 of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraphs (b) and (c) of sub-regulation (4.) the word “men” and inserting in its stead the word “persons”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (5.) the words “Controller of Technical Training” and inserting in their stead the words “Director of Industrial Training”.
Dilution may be permitted by a Local Dilution Committee.
5. Regulation 14 of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations is amended—
(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), before the words “basic wage” (wherever occurring), the word “male”; and
(b) by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3.) after the word “prescribed”, the words “for male employees”.
Wages of added tradesmen and apprentices.
6. Regulation 15 of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1.), after the word “prescribed”, the words “for male employees”.
7. Regulation 18 of the National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Limitation on employment of added tradesmen and females.
“18.—(1.) An employer shall not—
(a) engage or elevate or continue to employ an added tradesman on work ordinarily performed by a recognized tradesman if a recognized tradesman of the same classification who is competent to perform the work required is available and offering for such employment; or
(b) engage or elevate or continue to employ a female added tradesman on work ordinarily performed by a recognized tradesman if a recognized tradesman or a male added tradesman of the same classification who is competent to perform the work required is available and offering for such employment.
“(2.) When an employer reduces the number of his employees, he shall not, without the consent of a Local Dilution Committee—
(a) dismiss a recognized tradesman while any added tradesman of the same classification is employed by him in the same establishment; or
(b) dismiss a male added tradesman while any female added tradesman of the same classification is employed by him in the same establishment.
“(3.) A recognized tradesman shall not be debarred from employment by reason only of his age or because he is suffering from a minor disability, if a Local Dilution Committee certifies that he is competent to perform the work required.
“(4.) The last preceding sub-regulation shall not apply in relation to any undertaking or establishment in respect of which a pension scheme for its employees is in force unless a Local Dilution Committee directs that it shall so apply.
“(5.) Every male person employed as an added tradesman shall, within seven days after being required by a Local Dilution Committee so to do, enter into an agreement with the Commonwealth to abandon his employment as an added tradesman if and when a recognized tradesman boilermaker, who is declared by a Local Dilution Committee to be competent to perform the work required, is available and offering for such employment.
“(6.) Every female person employed as an added tradesman shall, within seven days after being required by a Local Dilution Committee so to do, enter into an agreement with the Commonwealth to abandon her employment as an added tradesman if and when a recognized tradesman boilermaker or a male added tradesman, who is declared by a Local Dilution Committee to be competent to perform the work required, is available and offering for such employment”.
8. The National Security (Boilermaking Trades Dilution) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:—
Investigations.
“22.—(1.) The Secretary of the Department may authorize any officer or employee of the Commonwealth to make investigations and reports in relation to the observance of these Regulations.
“(2.) Subject to the general control and direction of the Chairman of the Central Dilution Committee, an officer or employee of the Commonwealth so authorized may at any time during working hours enter any establishment, factory, mine, dockyard or workshop, in which any boilermaking trade to which these Regulations apply is being carried on, and may inspect any work, material, machinery, appliance, article, book or document contained therein, and may interview any person employed therein.
“(3.) A person shall not hinder or obstruct an officer or employee of the Commonwealth so authorized in the exercise of his powers under these Regulations”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.