Manner of showing amendments. 3. All copies of the principal Act to be hereafter printed by the Government Printer shall be printed as amended by this Act, under the supervision of the Clerk of Parliaments. AN ACT to protect the interests of Apprentices enlisting for Active Service. [Assented to 23rd May, 1918.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Apprentices Act, 1918, and shall be construed with the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912, and shall bind the Crown. Short title.. 2. When any apprentice, whether before or after the com- Suspension of mencement of this Act, has been enlisted or enrolled for active apprenticeship. naval or military service, his contract or apprenticeship shall be Ibid, s. 2. taken to have been and to be suspended during the period of such service and six months thereafter unless revived under this Act. 3. (1.) If any such apprentice within such six months gives Revival of apto his employer notice in writing that he desires the contract of prenticeship. apprenticeship to revive and be continued from the date of such See Ibid., s. 3. notice (a) Number or proportion of apprentices. Ibid., s. 4. (a) Until the expiration of the period fixed in the contract of apprenticeship; or (b) For the time unexpired at the date of suspension, or any portion thereof, the contract of apprenticeship shall thereupon revive accordingly. (2.) Any limitation as to age of apprentices, or as to the term of any apprenticeship, or any other provisions which would prevent the revival as aforesaid, or the carrying out after revival of a contract of apprenticeship, shall not apply to apprentices serving under a contract of apprenticeship revived as aforesaid. (3.) If no such notice be given within the time above limited the contract of apprenticeship shall lapse and become void, but the time served by the apprentice shall, for the purpose of determining his trade status, be deemed to include the period of his naval or military service. 4. Subject to the provision of any industrial agreement or award made after the commencement of the Act (a) An employer may during any suspension of a contract of apprenticeship take and employ another apprentice in the place of the one whose contract of apprenticeship has been suspended under this Act; and (b) In determining the number of apprentices, or proportion of apprentices, to other workers under any industrial agreement or award made prior to the commencement of this Act, any apprentice whose contract of apprenticeship has been suspended under this Act shall, during the period of such suspension, and during the period of service under such contract of apprenticeship as revived under this Act, be excluded. AN ACT to amend the Friendly Societies [Assented to 23rd May, 1918.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Friendly Societies Act Short title. Amendment Act, 1918, and shall be read as one with the Friendly Societies Act, 1894, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act. Section 12. 2. Section twelve of the principal Act is hereby amended Amendment of by adding to subsection three thereof a paragraph as follows:Provided also that where the sickness and funeral funds of a friendly society are administered by one central body for the whole society, such funds shall, if the Registrar approves, be deemed to be one fund for the purposes of this section. Short title. Re-appropriation from and to. No. 14 of 1918. AN ACT to authorise the Re-appropriation of certain Loan moneys. [Assented to 13th June, 1918.] E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Re-appropriation of Loan Moneys Act, 1918. 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appropriate out of the sums set forth in the First Schedule hereto, from the item therein set forth, and to the items enumerated in the Second Schedule hereto, the sum of Ten thousand pounds to be expended on the works named, in the Second Schedule hereto. FIRST |