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Employment Agents Amendment Act 1967

Public Act		1967 No 30
Date of assent		26 October 1967

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Change of name
3	Interpretation
4	Licence fee increased
5	Workers not to be charged fees
6	Increase in penalty
7	Consequential amendments
	Schedule Consequential Amendments of Principal Act
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Servants’ Registry Offices Act 1908

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

This Act may be cited as the Employment Agents Amendment Act 1967, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Act heretofore known as the Servants’ Registry Offices Act 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Change of name

(1)

The principal Act may hereafter be cited as the Employment Agents Act 1908.

(2)

The Servants’ Registry Offices Amendment Act 1960 may hereafter be cited as the Employment Agents Amendment Act 1960.

(3)

The Act heretofore known as the Servants’ Registry Offices Amendment Act 1960 is hereby consequentially amended by omitting from the Title, and also from section 1, the words “Servants’ Registry Offices” wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “Employment Agents”.

3 Interpretation

Section 2 of the principal Act (as amended by section 2 of the Act heretofore known as the Servants’ Registry Offices Amendment Act 1960) is hereby amended by omitting the word “‘Servant’”, and substituting the word “‘Worker’”.

4 Licence fee increased

Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of subsection (1) (as amended by section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) the words “one dollar”, and substituting the words “two dollars”.

5 Workers not to be charged fees

(1)

The principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing sections 13 to 15, and substituting the following section:

“13

No licence holder shall charge any worker any fee for, or recover any expenses incurred in, procuring or attempting to procure employment for him or for providing him with information regarding employment.”

(2)

The Order in Council made under the principal Act on the thirtieth day of January, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and published in the Gazette of the fifth day of February of that year, prescribing a scale of fees chargeable by and payable to licence holders in respect of the hiring of servants is hereby revoked.

6 Increase in penalty

Section 18 of the principal Act (as amended by section 4 of the Act heretofore known as the Servants’ Registry Offices Amendment Act 1960 and by section 7(1) of the Decimal Currency Act 1964) is hereby further amended by omitting from subsection (1) the words “ten dollars”, and substituting the words “one hundred dollars”.

7 Consequential amendments

(1)

The principal Act is here by consequentially amended in the manner indicated in the Schedule to this Act.

(2)

All references to the Servants’ Registry Offices Act 1908 or to a servants registry office in any other enactment or in any document whatsoever shall hereafter, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as references to the Employment Agents Act 1908 and to an employment agents office respectively.

Schedule Consequential Amendments of Principal Act

Section 7(1)

Section Affected	Amendment
Title	By omitting the words “servants’ registry offices”, and substituting the words “employment agents”.
Section 1(1)	By omitting the words “Servants’ Registry Offices”, and substituting the words “Employment Agents”.
Section 2	By omitting the definition of the term “Servants’ registry office”, and substituting in its appropriate alphabetical order the following definition: “‘Employment agents office’, or ‘employment office’, or ‘office’ means any premises at which is carried on the business of procuring workers for employers or employment for workers, but does not include any association or institution not carried on for the profit thereof:”
Section 3	By omitting the words “a registry office””, and substituting the words “an employment office”.
Section 3	By omitting the word “servants”, and substituting the word “workers”.
Section 8	By omitting from paragraph (a), and also from paragraph (c), the word “servants”, and substituting in each case the word “workers”.
Section 10	By omitting the word “servant”, and substituting the word “worker”.
Section 11	By omitting the words “‘Licensed Registry Office Keeper’”, and substituting the words “‘Licensed Employment Agent’”.
Section 16	By omitting the word “servants” in both places where it occurs, and substituting in each case the word “workers”.
Section 17	By omitting the word “servants”, and substituting the word “workers”.
Section 23	By omitting the words “in any district”.
Second Schedule	By omitting from forms (1), (2), and (3) (as substituted by section 2 of the Act heretofore known as the Servants’ Registry Offices Amendment Act 1960) the words “Servants’ Registry Offices Act 1908” wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “Employment Agents Act 1908”.
Second Schedule	By omitting from the said forms (as so substituted) the words “servants’ registry office” wherever they occur, and substituting in each case the words “employment agents office”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.

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