This Act may be cited as the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1939, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925.

If in respect of any discontinuance of employment the Minister is satisfied that it has caused or is likely to cause serious loss or inconvenience and that it has been brought about wholly or partly by any industrial union of employers or of workers or by any member or members thereof, the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, cancel the registration of the union, or cancel any award or industrial agreement in so far as it relates to the union.

Any notice under this section may be general or may be limited to any specified locality.

Every notice under this section shall have effect according to its tenor, and shall take effect on the date of its publication in the Gazette, or on such later date as may be specified in that behalf in the notice.

Upon the cancellation under this section of the registration in respect of any locality of any industrial union registered in respect of any industry (whether that locality is the whole or part of the area in respect of which the union is registered), all awards and industrial agreements shall be deemed to be cancelled in so far as they relate to that union and to that locality or any part thereof; and thereafter, until the Minister consents thereto, no other industrial union of employers or workers, as the case may be, shall be registered in respect of that industry and in respect of that locality or any part thereof, and the scope of any other union of employers or workers, as the case may be, that is registered in respect of that industry shall not be extended to that locality or to any part thereof.

For the purposes of this section the expression “discontinuance of employment” shall be deemed to include the refusal by any employer to engage workers for any work for which he usually employs workers, the refusal of any workers to accept engagement for any work in which they are usually employed, and any method, act, or omission in the course of employment that has or is likely to have the effect of interrupting or impeding the work in any industry.