The Short Title of this Act is “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1904”; 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”).

In order to remove certain doubts that have arisen as to the application of the definitions in the principal Act of the terms “employer,” “industry,” and “worker,” it is hereby declared that for all the purposes of the principal Act and its amendments (including this Act) an employer shall be deemed to be engaged in an industry when he employs workers who by reason of being so employed are themselves engaged in that industry, whether he employs them in the course of his trade or business or not.

The cases in which the acting member appointed under section three of “The Arbitration Court Emergency Act, 1903,” may attend and act are hereby extended to the case where the permanent member is himself a party to the dispute or proceedings and is consequently unable to act as member.

If in any such case as last aforesaid there is no duly appointed acting member who can attend and act, the Governor may, on the recommendation of the President, appoint a fit person to attend and act for the purpose of hearing and determining the dispute or proceedings to which the permanent member is a party, and the person so appointed shall be deemed to be an acting member for the purpose aforesaid.