This Act may be cited as the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act (No. 2), 1939, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Section fifty-eight of the principal Act is hereby amended as follows:—

As an alternative to the method prescribed by section thirteen of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1936, if a settlement of an industrial dispute is arrived at by the parties in the course of an inquiry held before a Council of Conciliation in accordance with the provisions of the principal Act, the terms of the settlement may be reduced to writing and on the written request of the assessors shall be forwarded by the Clerk of Awards directly to the Court of Arbitration, wherever it may be sitting, and the Court may forthwith incorporate the terms of the settlement in an award without any hearing of the dispute.

The provisions of subsections two and three of the said section thirteen shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in respect of every such award as from the date of the making of the award as if it were an industrial agreement made under that section and filed in the office of the Clerk of Awards on that date.

Section four of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act (No. 2), 1937, is hereby amended, as from the passing of that Act, as follows:—

Notwithstanding anything contained in section five of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act (No. 2), 1937, the term “respondents” where used in subsection one of section forty-two of the principal Act shall be deemed to mean and always to have meant the respondents named in the application made for the hearing of the dispute by a Council of Conciliation.

The provisions of section five of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act (No. 2), 1937, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply, and be deemed to have always applied, with respect to applications made under section fifty-eight of the principal Act, and with respect to any proceedings before the Court arising out of any such application.

It is hereby declared that the appointment of the Honourable John Bartholomew Callan, a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, to act as a Judge of the Court of Arbitration during the illness of the Honourable Patrick Joseph O’Regan was validly and lawfully made and that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act, it shall be lawful and be deemed to have been lawful for the Honourable John Bartholomew Callan to continue to act as such Judge for so long as may be necessary to complete the hearing and determination of such matters as have been heard or partly heard by the Court of Arbitration before the passing of this Act, while he was acting as a Judge thereof.