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Minimum Wage Amendment Act 1949

Public Act		1949 No 5
Date of assent		16 August 1949

	Title
1	Short Title and commencement.
2	Increasing minimum wages for workers.

An Act to Amend the Minimum Wage Act, 1945.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title and commencement.

1945, No. 44

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Minimum Wage Amendment Act, 1949, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Minimum Wage Act, 1945 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

This Act shall come into force on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and forty-nine.

2 Increasing minimum wages for workers.

1947, No. 40

(1)

Section two of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsections two and three (as substituted by the Minimum Wage Amendment Act, 1947), and substituting the following subsections:—

“(2)

For male workers the minimum rates of wages shall be the following:—

“(a)

If paid by the hour or by piecework, three shillings and threepence an hour or an amount equivalent thereto having regard to the rate of production of the worker:

“(b)

If paid by the day, one pound six shillings a day:

“(c)

In all other cases, six pounds five shillings a week.

“(3)

For female workers the minimum rates of wages shall be the following:—

“(a)

If paid by the hour or by piecework, two shillings and twopence an hour or an amount equivalent thereto having regard to the rate of production of the worker:

“(b)

If paid by the day, seventeen shillings and fourpence a day:

“(c)

In all other cases, four pounds three shillings a week.”

Repeal. 1947, No. 40

(2)

The Minimum Wage Amendment Act, 1947, is hereby consequentially repealed.

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