Labour Department Amendment Act 1970
Labour Department Amendment Act 1970
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Labour Department Amendment Act 1970
Public Act |
1970 No 73 |
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Date of assent |
27 November 1970 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Labour Department Act 1954
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 Labour Department Amendment Act 1970, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Labour Department Act 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Deputy Secretary of Labour
(1)
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 5, and substituting the following section:
“5
“(1)
There shall from time to time be appointed under the State Services Act 1962 a Deputy Secretary of Labour (hereinafter referred to as the Deputy Secretary), who, subject to the control of the Secretary, shall have and may exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the Secretary.
“(2)
On the occurrence from any cause of a vacancy in the office of Secretary (whether by reason of death, resignation, or otherwise), and in the case of the absence from duty of the Secretary (from whatever cause arising), and so long as any such vacancy or absence continues, the Deputy Secretary shall have and may exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the Secretary.
“(3)
The fact that the Deputy Secretary exercises any power, duty, or function of the Secretary shall be conclusive evidence of his authority to do so.
“(4)
For the purposes of this section, the powers, duties, and functions of the Secretary shall be deemed to include such of the powers of the Minister as the Secretary may for the time being be authorised to exercise pursuant to a delegation under section 7 of this Act.”
(2)
Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from the definition of the term “Secretary”
the words “and includes any person”
, and substituting the words “and includes the Deputy Secretary of Labour; and also includes any other person”
.
(3)
The Third Schedule to the State Services Act 1962 is hereby amended by inserting in the part thereof relating to the Department of Labour, after the word “Secretary”
, the words “Deputy Secretary”
.
3 Acts administered by the Department of Labour
(1)
The principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing the First Schedule, and substituting the First Schedule set out in the First Schedule to this Act.
(2)
The enactments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby consequentially repealed.
(3)
Section 48 of the Shops and Offices Act 1955 is hereby consequentially amended by omitting the words “and the First Schedule to that Act is hereby accordingly amended by omitting the reference to the Shops and Offices Act 1921–22, and substituting a reference to this Act”
.
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE NEW FIRST SCHEDULE TO LABOUR DEPARTMENT ACT 1954
Section 3(1)
“FIRST SCHEDULE
Acts Administered by the Department of Labour.
The Agricultural Workers Act 1962.
The Annual Holidays Act 1944.
The Apprentices Act 1948.
The Bush Workers Act 1945.
The Clerks of Works Act 1944.
The Construction Act 1959.
The Disabled Persons Employment Promotion Act 1960.
The Employment Agents Act 1908.
The Factories Act 1946.
The General Wage Orders Act 1969.
The Immigration Act 1964.
The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1954.
The Industrial Relations Act 1949.
The Labour Disputes Investigation Act 1913.
The Machinery Act 1950.
The Minimum Wage Act 1945.
The National Military Service Act 1961.
The Phosphorus Matches Act 1910.
The Public Holidays Act 1955.
The Sharemilking Agreements Act 1937.
The Shearers Act 1962.
The Shops and Offices Act 1955.
The Technicians Training Act 1967.
The Tenancy Act 1955.
The Wages Protection Act 1964.
The Waterfront Industry Act 1953.
The Weights and Measures Act 1925.
The Workers’ Compensation Act 1956.”
SECOND SCHEDULE Enactments Repealed
Section 3(2)
1955, No. 50—The Tenancy Act 1955: Subsection (2) of section 3. (1957 Reprint, Vol. 15, p. 531.)
1956, No. 62—The Workers’ Compensation Act 1956: Subsection (2) of section 137. (Reprinted, 1966, Vol. 4 p. 3422.)
1959, No. 32—The Construction Act 1959: Subsection (2) of section 33.
1961, No. 116—The National Military Service Act 1961: Subsection (2) of section 72.
1962, No. 136—The Shearers Act 1962: Subsection (2) of section 4.
1962, No. 137—The Agricultural Workers Act 1962: Subsection (2) of section 4.
1964, No. 58—The Wages Protection Act 1964: Subsection (2) of section 12.
1967, No. 161—The Technicians Training Act 1967: Subsection (2) of section 27.
1969, No. 37—The General Wage Orders Act 1969: Subsection (2) of section 13.
This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.
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