Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration.

A.—s.

' Worker " means any person of any age of either sex employed by any employer to do any skilled or unskilled manual or clerical work for hire or reward. (2.) In order to remove any doubt as to the application of the foregoing definitions of the terms "employer," "industry," and " worker," 5 it is hereby declared that for all the purposes of this Act an employer shall be deemed to be engaged in an industry when he employs workers who by reason of being so employed are themselves engaged in that industry, whether he employs them in the course of his trade or business or not. 10 Administration. 3. The Minister for Labour shall have the general administration of this Act. 4. (1.) The Registrar shall be the. person who for the time being holds the office of Secretary for Labour, or such other person as the ig Governor from time to time appoints to be Registrar. (2.) The Registrar may, in any matter arising in or out of the performance of his duties, state a case for the advice and opinion of the Court. (3.) The Governor may from time to time appoint some fit person 20 to be Deputy Registrar, who shall, under the control of the Registrar, perform such general official duties as he is called upon to perform under this Act or by the Registrar, and who in case of the illness, absence, or other temporary incapacity of the Registrar shall act in his name and on his behalf, and while so acting shall have and 25 may exercise all the powers, duties, and functions of the Registrar. (2.) Registration. Industrial Unions. 5. Subject to the provisions of this Act, any society consisting of not less than two persons in the case of employers, or seven in the 30 case of workers, lawfully associated for the purpose of protecting or furthering the interests of employers or workers in or in connection with any specified industry or industries in New Zealand, may be registered as an industrial union under this Act on compliance with the following provisions :— 35 (a.) An application for registration shall be made to the Registrar in writing, stating the name of the proposed industrial union, and signed by two or more officers of the society. (b.) Such application shall be accompanied by— (i.) A list of the members and officers of the society; 40 (ii.) Two copies of the rules of the society; (hi.) A copy of a resolution passed by a majority of the members present at a general meeting of the society, specially called in accordance with the rules for that purpose only, and desiring registration as an industrial union 45 of employers, or, as the case may be, of workers, (c.) Such rules shall specify the purposes for which the society is formed, and shall provide for— (i.) The appointment of a committee of management, a chairman, secretary, and any other necessary officers, 50 and, if thought fit, of a trustee or trustees ;

1901, No. 37, sec. 3

1904, No. 53, sec. 2

Minister for Labour to administer Act. 1900, No. 51, sec. 3 Secretary for Labour to be Registrar. Ibid, sec. 4 Registrar may state case. 1901, No. 37, sec. 22 Deputy Registrar. 1903, No. 62, sec. 2

What sooieties may be registered. 1900, No. 51, see. 5

Mods of application and terms of rules.

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