Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act (No. 2) 1983 No. 115 of 1983 - SECT 3

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended -

   (a)  by adding ''and'' at the end of paragraph (c) of the definition
of ''Industrial dispute'' in sub-section (1);

   (b)  by omitting ''and'' from the end of paragraph (d) of that definition;

   (c)  by omitting paragraph (e) of that definition; and

   (d)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-sections:

''(7) For the purposes of this Act, employees in-

   (a)  prescribed service;

   (b)  any calling, service, handicraft, occupation or vocation in prescribed
        service; or

   (c)  any category, division, class, grade or branch of prescribed service
        or of any such calling, service, handicraft, occupation or vocation,

shall be deemed to be employees in an industry.

''(8) For the purposes of sub-section (7), 'prescribed service' means-

   (a)  service or employment of the Commonwealth or the Northern Territory,
        or of an authority, institution or body (whether a body corporate or
        not, but not being an incorporated company or a society or
        association) established for a public purpose by or under a law of the
        Commonwealth or of the Northern Territory, other than service or
        employment in the Defence Force; and

   (b)  all persons in any such service or employment in any capacity, whether
        permanently or temporarily and whether full-time or part-time.''.