STATUTORY RULES.
1948. No. 16.
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 twenty-first day of January, 1948.
W. J. McKELL
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
R.T. POLLARD
Acting Minister of State for Post-war Reconstruction.
Amendments of the Re-establishment and Employment (Conditions of Entry into Employment) Regulations.†
Parts.
1. Regulation 2 of the Re-establishment and Employment (Conditions of Entry into Employment) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following words:—
“Part IV.—Electrical Fitters and Electrical Mechanics, Queensland.”
2. After Part III. of the Re-establishment and Employment (Conditions of Entry into Employment) Regulations the following Part is added:—
“Part IV.—Electrical Fitters and Electrical Mechanics, Queensland.
Definitions.
“9.—(1.) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears—
‘probationary tradesman’ and ‘trainee tradesman’ have the same meanings as those expressions have in Part V. of the Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act 1946;
‘the Local Committee’ means the Local (Electrical Trades) Committee appointed in the State of Queensland in pursuance of the Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act 1946.
“(2.) Expressions used in this Part shall, unless the contrary intention appears, have the same meaning as those expressions have in the Electrical Workers Acts, 1927 to 1931 of the State of Queensland.
Approved employers may employ certain discharged members as electrical fitters or mechanics.
“10. An employer approved by the Local Committee may employ as an electrical fitter or electrical mechanic a discharged member of the Forces whose employment as a probationary or trainee tradesman has
*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th January, 1948.
†Statutory Rules 1947, No. 39.
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been authorized by the Local Committee and may train him in a manner approved by the Local Committee and the Board with a view to his applying to the Board for a certificate of competency as an electrical fitter or electric mechanic.
Probationary or trainee tradesman may apply for, and Board may grant, certificate of competency.
“11.–(1.) A probationary or trainee tradesman who has been trained in accordance with regulation 10 of these Regulations and has passed, to the satisfaction of the Board, an examination prescribed and conducted by the Board or a member of the Forces who has been issued with a certificate of recognition as a recognized tradesman electrical fitter or electrical mechanic in pursuance of the Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act 1946, may apply to the Board for a certificate of competency as an electrical fitter or electrical mechanic.
“(2.) The Board may grant a certificate of competency as an electrical fitter or electrical mechanic to an applicant who satisfies the Board that he possesses the necessary practical and theoretical knowledge, skill and intelligence to perform the work which the holder of a certificate is permitted to perform.
Person granted certificate of competency entitled to enter occupation of electrical fitter or electrical mechanic.
“12.—(1.) A person who has been granted a certificate of competency under the last preceding regulation shall be entitled to carry on or engage or be employed or act in the calling or occupation of an electrical fitter or electrical mechanic in the State of Queensland.
“(2.) The provisions of the Electrical Workers Acts, 1927-1931 of the State of Queensland shall, subject to these Regulations, apply in relation to any such certificate as if it were a certificate of competency granted under that Act.”.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.