COAL INDUSTRY.

No. 57 of 1958.

An Act to amend the Coal Industry Act 1946–1957.

[Assented to 1st October, 1958.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Coal Industry Act 1958.

(2.) The Coal Industry Act 1946–1957, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Coal Industry Act 1946–1958.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. After section eight of the Coal Industry Act 1946–1957 the following section is inserted:—

Preservation of rights.

“8a. Where a member of the Board was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth—

(a) he retains his existing and accruing rights;

(b) for the purpose of determining those rights, his service as a member of the Board shall be taken into account as if it were service in the Public Service of the Commonwealth; and

(c) the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928–1953 applies as if this Act and this section had been specified in the Schedule to that Act.”.