Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act 1920
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act 1920
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Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act 1920
Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act 1920
Public Act |
1920 No 76 |
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Date of assent |
11 November 1920 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
This Act may be cited as the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1920, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Employers and workers engaged in same industry entitled to be heard in any proceeding.
In any proceeding before a Council or the Court relating to any industry any organization of employers, or any organization of workers consisting of not less than fifteen members, connected with that industry in the locality to which the proceeding relates shall be entitled to appear and be heard in every respect as if they were parties to such proceeding if in the opinion of the Commissioner, where such proceeding is before a Council, or of the Court, where such proceeding is before the Court, such organization of employers or workers, or the members thereof, may in any manner be affected by any result of such proceeding.
3 Section 5 of principal Act amended.
Section five of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “specified industry or,”
the word “related.”
4 Sections 7 and 20 of principal Act amended.
(1.)
Subsection two of section seven and subsection one of section twenty of the principal Act are hereby respectively amended by inserting, after the word “industry,”
the words “or related industries.”
(2.)
Subsection two of section twenty of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “that industry,”
and substituting the words “the industry or related industries.”
5 Section 23 of principal Act amended.
Subsection one of section twenty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “unions,”
the words “connected with one industry or related industries.”
6 Section 4 of Amendment Act of 1911 amended.
Subsection five of section four of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1911, is hereby amended by omitting all the words after the words “place or places,”
and substituting the words “as the Court directs.”
7 Section 74 of principal Act amended.
Section seventy-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the words “five hundred pounds,”
and substituting the words “seven hundred and fifty pounds.”
8 Section 18 of the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918, amended.
Section eighteen of the War Legislation and Statute Law Amendment Act, 1918, is hereby amended by repealing subsections three and four thereof, and substituting the following subsection in lieu thereof:—
“(3.)
The powers conferred on the Court by this section are discretionary, and may be exercised only if the Court, after taking into consideration any alteration since the date of the award or agreement in the conditions affecting the industry or industries to which such award or agreement relates and any increase or decrease since the date of the award or agreement in the cost of living affecting the workers or any class of workers engaged in any such industry or industries, and all other relevant considerations, is satisfied—
“(a.)
That it is just and equitable to the employers and the workers in such industry or industries that the award should be amended; and
“(b.)
That the economic continuance of such industry or industries will not be unduly imperilled by the effect of any such amendment upon the cost of production:
“Provided, however, that any award or agreement made under this clause shall provide for a fair living-wage for the workers engaged in the industry or industries concerned.”
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