Trade Boards and Road Haulage Wages (Emergency Provisions) Act 1940
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1940 c. 7 |
Trade Boards and Road Haulage Wages (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1940
(3 & 4 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 7.
An Act to empower the Minister of Labour and National Service, during the present emergency, to modify or suspend the operation of any of the provisions of the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918, and the Road Haulage Wages Act, 1938, and to make provision with respect to any of the matters to which the said provisions relate; and to make a consequential amendment of the Holidays with Pay Act, 1938.
[20th February 1940]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Power of Minister of Labour and National Service to make regulations adapting statutory system of trade boards to war time conditions.
(1) For the purpose of adapting the statutory system of trade boards to the conditions prevailing in time of war, the Minister of Labour and National Service may by regulations modify or suspend the operation of any of the provisions of the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918, to such extent as he considers expedient for the purpose aforesaid, and make such provision with respect to any of the matters to which those provisions relate as he considers expedient for that purpose:
Provided that no such regulations shall—
(a ) create any new offence or increase the penalty for any offence;
(b ) affect subsections (1) to (3) of section eleven of the Trade Boards Act, 1909 (which contain certain requirements as to the composition of trade boards);
(c ) authorise the fixing, cancellation or variation of minimum rates of wages under the Trade Boards Acts, 1909 and 1918, otherwise than by a trade board; or
(d ) empower a trade board to fix, cancel or vary any minimum rate of wages, not being a special minimum piece-rate, without giving notice of their proposal to do so, allowing a period of at least fourteen days for any objection thereto to be lodged with them, and considering any such objection duly lodged with them within that period.
(2) Section nineteen of the Trade Boards Act, 1909, (which requires regulations under that Act to be laid before Parliament) and section twelve of the Trade Boards Act, 1918 , (which provides that section one of the Rules...
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