ARBITRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 267, 10 November 1937, Page 10

ARBITRATION.

LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENT.

DELEGATING FUNCTIONS.

(By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The Labour Bills Committee of the House of Representatives having taken, evidence on the Industrial Conciliation it nd Arbitration Amendment Bill, returned it to-day with one important amendment which will limit the powers of I,lie Arbitration Court to delegate its functions. As originally introduced, the bill provided that, the Court could delegate any of Its powers under the principal Act, or under the Apprentices Act, a Stipendiary Magistrate, a Registrar of deputy-Registrar of the Supreme t OUrt, the Registrar of the Court of Arbitration, or any clerk of nwards. As amended by the select committee, these powers of delegation mav be I exercised only by Stipendiary Magist intra, and the name of the magistrate nnist be speciiied in the order delecting any particular power. Clause ii has also undergone some modification. It. deals with tho citation of employers, and brings in ail employers associated in an industry in l ospoet, to which an industrial association of employers is cited, whether all employers are members or not. The committee luis added tho proviso that this shall not apply In respect to any dispute affecting any branch of the fanning industry unless every industrial uniou of employers whose memlmrs, or liny of them are engaged in the industrial district In that branch of the fanning industry are named in the application as respondent. By the deletion of a sub-clause which limited the scope of the Court's delegation of powers the committee has expressly empowered the Court of Arbitral ion to delegate to Stipendiary Magistrates, if it, ho desires, tho power of hearing disputes and making awards.