A survey of ruling rates of remuneration, and (as far as is practicable) conditions of employment, in occupations outside State Departments, shall be made during February in each year, or, after consultation with service organisations whose members are likely to be affected thereby, at such other time as may be deemed more appropriate, to enable the Tribunal to make such adjustments in rates of remuneration and adjustments in conditions of employment as may be considered necessary to maintain fair relativity between remuneration and the conditions of employment for any class or classes or group or groups of employees in the service of the Department, and the remuneration and conditions of employment for the same or an equivalent class or classes or group or groups of workers outside State Departments.

Any general order of the Court of Arbitration made under any regulations under the Economic Stabilisation Act 1948 shall, for the purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section, be applied as from the date on which it took effect, to the extent that such order has been applied generally outside State Departments as shown by a ruling rates survey, which shall be taken three months after the date on which that order took effect, or at such other date as may be agreed upon between the General Manager and the service organisations consulted under subsection (3) of this section, and the Tribunal shall amend any existing principal order affected thereby accordingly.

The number of occupations to be surveyed and the scope and mode of making each survey shall be determined after consultation with the service organisations whose members are likely to be affected thereby:

“Provided that this subsection shall not operate to prevent the Government Statistician from conducting surveys of ruling rates of remuneration and conditions of employment at such intervals and of such scope as he thinks fit in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Statistics Act 1955.

The results of each such survey shall be made known to the General Manager and to the service organisations which were consulted in respect of that survey in accordance with subsection (3) of this section.

The General Manager shall consider the results of each survey, and shall consult with the service organisations affected thereby.

The General Manager or any service organisation may, subject to the foregoing provisions of this section and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Act, apply to the Tribunal in writing for an order making adjustments in the rates of remuneration and adjustments in conditions of employment as prescribed in subsection (1) of this section, and the Tribunal shall hear and determine the application, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3) of section 104 of this Act.”