RE-ESTABLISHMENT AND EMPLOYMENT.

No. 56 of 1955.

An Act to amend the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945-1953, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 4th November, 1955.]

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 1955.

(2.) The Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945-1953 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945-1955.

Commencement

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

(2.) Sub-section (1.) of section three of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the third day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five.

(3.) Section four of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the fifth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-three.

3.—(1.) Section thirty-four of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Operation of sections 24 to 33.

“34.—(1.) Sections twenty-four to thirty-three (inclusive) of this Act shall cease to be in operation at midnight on the second day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight.

“(2.) When the sections of this Act referred to in the last preceding sub-section cease to be in operation, they shall be deemed to have been repealed and the provisions of section eight of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901-1950 shall have effect accordingly.”.

(2.) 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-five, and before the date on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

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

(4.) Where an order made under section twenty-eight or twenty-nine of the Principal Act on or before the second day of September, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five, 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-five, and before the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent, 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 day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

Rate of re-employment allowance.

4. Section seventy-six of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (2.) the words “One pound two shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “One pound fifteen shillings and sixpence”.

Extension of operation of certain provisions to members of the Forces (Korea and Malays Operations).

5. Section one hundred and thirty-eight of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “(other then Division 1)” and inserting in their stead the words “(other than Division 1 and section one hundred and two a)”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (f) of sub-section (2.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(f) the regulations may provide that a business re-establishment allowance is not payable unless an application for the allowance is made within the prescribed period.”.