RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT (No. 2).

No. 52 of 1958.

An Act to amend the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945–1956, as amended by the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1958, and for purposes incidental thereto.

[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 Re-establishment and Employment Act (No. 2) 1958.

(2.)  The Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945–1956, as amended by the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1958, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  Section one of the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1958 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(4.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945–1958.

Commencement.

2.—(1.)  Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2.)  Section three of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the second day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight.

Operation of sections 24 to 33.

3.  Section thirty-four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-section:—

“(1.)  Sections twenty-four to thirty-three (inclusive) of this Act shall cease to be in operation at midnight on the thirtieth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and sixty.”.

Incidental provisions.

4.—(1.) A person shall not be convicted of an offence arising under section thirty-three of the Principal Act as amended by this Act which was committed on or after the third day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, and before the commencement of this section.

(2.)  An order purporting to have been made under section twenty-eight or section twenty-nine of the Principal Act on or after the third day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, and before the commencement of this section, has, subject to the next succeeding sub-section, the same force and effect as if the Principal Act as amended by this Act had been in force on the day on which the order was made.

(3.)  Where an order made under section twenty-eight or section twenty-nine of the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945–1956 or of the Principal Act on or before the second day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, or an order referred to in the last preceding sub-section, directed an employer to engage a person in employment on or before a date occurring after the second day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight, and before the commencement of this section, that order shall, for the purposes of the Principal Act as amended by this Act, be deemed to have directed, and shall have effect as if it had directed, the employer to engage the person in employment on or before the fourteenth day after the date of commencement of this section.