STATUTORY RULES.
1947. No. 39.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1945.*
I, 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 Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945.
Dated this twentieth day of March, 1947.
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.
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Re-establishment and Employment (Conditions of Entry into Employment) Regulations.
Part I.—Preliminary.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Re-establishment and Employment (Conditions of Entry into Employment) Regulations.
Parts.
2. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—Electrical Linesmen, Queensland.
Part III.—Architects, South Australia.
Part II.—Electrical Linesmen, Queensland.
Definitions.
3. In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears—
“electrical linesman” means a person who is engaged in overhead construction and maintenance work and running, fixing, connecting or maintaining electrical conductors outside of buildings;
“electrical work” means all work done in connexion with the installation and repair of electric lines, meters, accumulators, fittings, and apparatus for the generation, transmission or supply of electrical energy;
“the Board” means the Electrical Workers Board appointed under the Electrical Workers’ Acts, 1927 to 1931 of the State of Queensland.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1947.
6682.—Price 3d. 9/25.2.1947.
Course of training of discharged members of Forces.
4.—(1.) The Brisbane City Council and any other Queensland Electric Supply Authority approved by the Minister may establish a training school for the purpose of training discharged members of the Forces to become electrical linesmen and may employ those members on appropriate electrical work included in the course of training.
(2.) The course of training at every such school shall be approved by the Board, and the numbers and standards of the examinations for which candidates shall sit during, and at the completion of, the course shall be approved by the Board which may, if it thinks fit, give directions as to the manner in which those examinations shall be conducted.
Application for certificate of competency.
5. Any discharged member of the Forces who has completed the course of training approved by the Board and passed all relevant examinations in connexion therewith and who has also had not less than six months’ experience on electrical line construction or on repairing work may apply to the Board for a certificate of competency.
Grant of certificate of competency.
6. The Board may grant to any such applicant who satisfies it that he possesses the necessary practical and theoretical knowledge, skill and intelligence to perform the duties which the holder of a certificate of competency is permitted to carry out, a certificate of competency as an electrical linesman under and for the purposes of the Electrical Workers’ Acts, 1927 to 1931 of the State of Queensland as modified by those Regulations.
Effect of grant of certificate of competency.
7. A certificate of competency as an electrical linesman granted in pursuance of these Regulations shall be deemed to be a certificate of competency as an electrical linesman under and for the purposes of the Electrical Workers’ Acts, 1927 to 1931 of the State of Queensland and the person who is the holder of such a certificate may carry on or engage or be employed or act in the calling or occupation of an electrical linesman in the State of Queensland.
Part III.—Architects, South Australia.
Qualification for registration as an architect.
8. The requirements of the Architects Act, 1939 of the State of South Australia are modified, in relation to discharged members of the Forces, to the extent that section 32 of that Act shall be read as if the following paragraph were included therein:—
“(e) that he has completed a course of study in architectural subjects approved by the board and has had three years’ practical experience in the work of an architect.”.
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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.