SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Miscellaneous Amendments

The Wages Councils Act 1959 (c. 69)

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1

The Wages Councils Act 1959 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

2

The functions of commissions of inquiry under the Wages Councils Act 1959 transferred to the Commission on Industrial Relations by paragraph 40 of Schedule 3 to the 1971 Act shall become again functions of commissions of inquiry under die 1959 Act and accordingly any reference in sections 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 9 of, and Schedule 1 to, that Act which, by virtue of the 1971 Act, became a reference to the Commission shall become again a reference to a commission of inquiry under the said Act of 1959.

3

In section 5, at the end of subsection (1) there shall be re-inserted the words—

or

c

by any organisation of workers which represents a substantial proportion of the workers with respect to whom that wages council operates

and in subsection (2) for the words from " the council" to the end of the subsection there shall continue to be substituted the words " the existence of a wages council is no longer necessary for the purpose of maintaining a reasonable standard of remuneration for the workers with respect to whom that wages council operates ";

4

Section 9(1) and Schedule 4 (which were repealed by the 1971 Act) are hereby revived.

5

In section 22(3), for the words "any report" substituted by Schedule 8 to the 1971 Act there shall continue to be substituted the words " the report ".

6

In section 23 the words " a commission of inquiry " repealed by the 1971 Act are hereby revived.

7

In section 24, there are hereby revived the definitions of " wages council " and " commission of inquiry " for which a definition of " wages council" was substituted by Schedule 8 (to the 1971 Act.

8

In Schedule 1, after paragraph 2 there shall be reinserted the following paragraph:—

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In relation to the making of an order under section 4 of this Act in pursuance of an application made in accordance with section 5(1)(c) of this Act, paragraph 2 of this Schedule shall have effect as if, before the words ' shall publish', there were inserted the words ' after consultation with the wages council concerned and with all such organisations of employers as in his opinion represent a substantial proportion of employers with respect to whom the wages council operates '.