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TH DECEMBER 1945] 4 P ART I - SECT 25

Short title.

25.(1) This Act may be cited as the Wages Councils Act (Northern Ireland),
1945.

Subs.(2) rep. by SLR (NI) 1952

Sections 7 and 8.

1. A wages council or central co-ordinating committee shall consist of persons
appointed by the Ministry, being

(a)not more than three persons chosen by the Ministry as being independent
persons;

(b)such number as the Ministry thinks fit of persons who, in its opinion,
represent employers in relation to whom the council or, as the case may be,
the councils in question, is or are to operate; and

(c)such number as the Ministry thinks fit of persons who, in its opinion,
represent workers in relation to whom the council or, as the case may be, the
councils in question, is or are to operate.

2. Of the persons appointed under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1 of this
Schedule, one shall be appointed by the Ministry to act as chairman, and
another may be appointed by the Ministry to act as deputy chairman in the
absence of the chairman.

3. Before appointing a person under sub-paragraph (b) or sub-paragraph (c) of
the said paragraph 1, the Ministry shall consult any organisations appearing
to it to represent employers, or, as the case may be, workers, concerned, and
the persons appointed under those sub-paragraphs shall be equal in number.

4.The Ministry may appoint a secretary and such other officers as it thinks
fit of a wages council or central co-ordinating committee.

5. The proceedings of a wages council or central co-ordinating committee shall
not be invalidated by reason of any vacancy therein or by any defect in the
appointment of a member.

6. A wages council or central co-ordinating committee may, if it thinks fit,
delegate any of its powers under this Act (except, in the case of a
wages council, the power to submit wages regulation proposals) to a committee
or, as the case may be, sub-committee consisting of such number of persons,
being members of the council or committee, as the council or committee thinks
fit;

Provided that the members of the committee or sub-committee representing
employers and the members of the committee or sub-committee representing
workers shall be equal in number.

7. The Ministry may make regulations as to the meetings and procedure of a
wages council or central co-ordinating committee and of any committee or, as
the case may be, sub-committee thereof, including regulations as to the quorum
and the method of voting, but, subject to the provisions of this Act and to
any regulations so made, a wages council or central co-ordinating committee
and any committee or, as the case may be, sub-committee thereof may regulate
its procedure in such manner as it thinks fit.

8. The term for which a member of a wages council or central co-ordinating
committee is to hold office shall be such as may be determined by the Ministry
at the time of his appointment, and the conditions subject to which he is to
hold office shall be such as may be prescribed.

9. There may be paid to the members of a wages council or central
co-ordinating committee appointed under sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 1 of
this Schedule such remuneration, and to any member of any such council or
committee, such travelling and other allowances, as the Ministry may, with the
consent of the Ministry of Finance, determine, and all such remuneration and
allowances shall be defrayed as part of the expenses of the Ministry in
carrying this Act into effect.

Second Schedule rep. by 1976 NI 16 art.82(3) sch.7. Third Schedule rep. by SLR
(NI) 1952Fifth Schedule rep. by SLR (NI) 1952



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