SUPPLY AND DEVELOPMENT (No. 2).

No. 40 of 1939.

An Act to amend the Supply and Development Act 1939.

[Assented to 26th September, 1939.]

BE it enacted by the King’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 Supply and Development Act (No. 2) 1939.

(2.)  The Supply and Development Act 1939 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Supply and Development Act 1939.

Commencement.

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

Regulations.

3. Section twenty-seven of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the definition of “employee” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘employee’ means employee not being a person who is an officer within the meaning of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922–1937;”; and

(b) by omitting from the definition of “trade union” in subsection (3.) the words “but does not include an association of employees in the Public Service”