NEWSPRINTING PAPER BOUNTY.

No. 82 of 1939.

An Act to amend the Newsprinting Paper Bounty Act 1938.

[Assented to 15th December, 1939.]

[Date of commencement, 12th January, 1940.]

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 Newsprinting Paper Bounty Act 1939.

(2.) The Newsprinting Paper Bounty Act 1938, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Newsprinting Paper Bounty Act 1938–1939.

2. After section nine of the Newsprinting Paper Bounty Act 1938, the following section is inserted:—

Rates of wages and conditions of employment.

“9a.—(1.) Where, in the locality where paper in respect of the production of which bounty is claimed is manufactured, any standard rates of wages or conditions of employment to be paid or observed in respect of any persons employed in the manufacture of that paper have been—

(a) prescribed by any award, order or determination of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration or of any other industrial authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory or in any industrial agreement registered under any law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory; or

(b) declared to be fair and reasonable in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2.) of this section,

a manufacturer when making any claim for bounty in respect of the production of any paper shall certify to the Collector that the rates of wages and the conditions of employment observed by him in respect of the persons employed in the manufacture of the paper were not less favourable to the persons so employed than the rates and conditions so prescribed or declared.

“(2.) If, in the locality where paper in respect of the production of which bounty is claimed is manufactured, the rates of wages and conditions of employment to be paid and observed in respect of any persons employed in the manufacture of that paper have not been prescribed by any award, order or determination of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration or of any other industrial

authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory or in any industrial agreement registered under any law of the Commonwealth, or of a State or Territory, the Minister may make application to the Chief Judge or a Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration for a declaration as to what rates of wages and conditions of employment are fair and reasonable for persons employed in the manufacture of paper in that locality.

“(3.) If the Minister finds that the rates of wages paid to, or the conditions of employment, or any of them, observed in respect of, persons employed in the manufacture of paper upon which bounty is claimed were less favourable to those persons than the rates and conditions prescribed or declared as specified in paragraph (a) or paragraph (b), as the case may be, of sub-section (1.) of this section, he may direct that the whole or any part of any bounty shall not be payable and that whole or part, as the case may be. shall thereupon not be payable.”.