STATUTORY RULES.

1942. No. 537.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the National Security Act 1939-1940.

Dated this twelfth

day of December         , 1942.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellencys Command,

(Sgd.) E. J. WARD

for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Defence.

 

Amendment of National Security (Economic Organization)

Regulations.†

Rates of wages not to be altered.

Regulation 15 of the National Security (Economic Organization) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

(3.) Where, immediately prior to the tenth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and forty-two, it was the practice of an employer to pay to an employee in recognition of the special skill or other qualifications required for the satisfactory performance of the duties of the employment, an amount additional to the amount of remuneration prescribed, in respect of the employment, by law or by any industrial award, order, determination or agreement, then, unless an Industrial Authority otherwise approves, the employer shall, in respect of that employment, notwithstanding any adjustments in the rate of remuneration in accordance with variations in the cost of living, continue to pay to the employee an amount equal to the additional amount so paid to the employee..

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on      , 1942.

† Statutory Rules 1942, No. 76, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, Nos. 81, 110, 127, 145, 160, 218, 221, 224, 248, 257, 293, 318, 332, 344, 425, 458 and 490.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

5353.—Price 3d. 6/26.11.1942.