The Short Title of this Act is “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1903”; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900” (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”).

The Governor may from time to time appoint some fit person to be Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions, who shall, under the control of the Registrar, perform such general official duties as he is called upon to perform under this Act or by the Registrar, and who in case of the illness, absence, or other temporary incapacity of the Registrar shall act in his name and on his behalf, and while so acting shall have and may exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the Registrar.

Where any change takes place in the members constituting the Board or the Court, any proceeding or inquiry then in progress shall not abate or be affected, but shall continue and be dealt with by the Board or the Court as if no such change had taken place: Provided that the Board or the Court may require evidence to be retaken where necessary.

Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection two of section eighty-seven of the principal Act, the Court may extend an award to another industrial district so as to join and bind as parties to the award any specified trade-union, industrial union, industrial association, or employer where the award relates to a trade or manufacture the products of which enter into competition in any market with those manufactured in the industrial district where the award is in force.

If during the currency of an award any employer, worker, industrial union or association, or any combination of either employers or workers, has taken proceedings with the intention to defeat any of the provisions of the award, such employer, worker, union, association, or combination, and every member thereof respectively, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of the award, and shall be liable accordingly.

Every employer who dismisses from his employment any worker by reason merely of the fact that the worker is a member of an industrial union, or who is conclusively proved to have dismissed such worker merely because he is entitled to the benefit of an award, order, or agreement, shall be deemed to have committed a breach of the award, order, or agreement, and shall be liable accordingly.

Every Inspector appointed under “The Factories Act, 1901,” shall be an Inspector of Awards under the principal Act, and shall be charged with the duty of seeing that the provisions of any industrial agreement, or award, or order of the Court are duly observed.

Every Inspector of Mines appointed under either “The Coal-mines Act, 1891,” or “The Mining Act, 1898,” shall be an Inspector of Awards, and shall be charged with the duty of seeing that the provisions of any such agreement, award, or order are duly observed in any coal-mine or mine within his district.

In the discharge of such duty an Inspector of Awards may require any employer or worker to produce for his examination any wages-books and overtime-books necessary for the purposes of this section; and, in addition, every such Inspector shall have and may exercise all the powers conferred on Inspectors of Factories by section six of “The Factories Act, 1901,” and that section and section seven of the same Act shall, mutatis mutandis, extend and apply to Inspectors of Awards; and except for the purposes of this Act, and in the exercise of his functions under this Act, an Inspector shall not disclose to any person any information which in the exercise of such functions he acquires; and any Inspector who shall, in contravention of this Act, divulge any information shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.