Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

46 Duty of the Corporation as to establishment of machinery for settlement of terms and conditions of employment, etc. E+W+S

(1) It shall be the duty of the [F1 Corporation] to enter into consultation with organisations appearing to them to represent substantial proportions of the persons in the employment of the [F1 Corporation], or of any class of such persons, as to the [F2 Corporation’s] concluding with those organisations agreements providing for the establishment and maintenance of joint machinery for—

(a) the settlement by negotiation of terms and conditions of employment, with provision for reference to arbitration in default of such settlement in such cases as may be determined by or under the agreements; and

(b) consultation on—

(i) questions relating to the safety, health or welfare of such persons;

(ii) the organisation and conduct of the operations in which such persons are employed and other matters of mutual interest to the [F1 Corporation] and such persons arising out of the exercise and performance by the [F1 Corporation]of their functions.

(2) The [F1 Corporation] shall deposit with [F3 the Secretary of State] copies of any such agreement as aforesaid entered into by the [F1 Corporation] and of any instrument varying the terms of any such agreement.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word substituted by Coal Industry Act 1987 (c. 3, SIF 86), s. 1(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(3)

F2 Words substituted by Coal Industry Act 1987 (c. 3, SIF 86), s. 1(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(4)

F3 Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1957/48 (1957 I, p. 1439), 1959/1769 (1959 I, p. 1795), art. 2(1), 1968/729, arts. 2(1), 3(2), 1969/1498, arts. 2(1), 5(6) and 1970/1537, arts. 2(2), 3, 7(4)