§ (1) Where a workman has entered into an undertaking with the Minister of Munitions under Section six of the principal Act, and was at the time of entering into that undertaking in the employment of any employer, then if that employer within the period of six weeks from the date of the undertaking dismisses that workman from his employment, he shall be guilty of an offence under the principal Act, and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds, unless he proves that there was reasonable cause for dismissing the workman.
§ (2) It is hereby declared that where the fulfilment by any workman of any contract is interfered with by the necessity on his part of complying with an undertaking entered into by him under Section six of the principal Act, that necessity is a good 894 defence to any action or proceedings taken against that workman in respect of the non-fulfilment of the contract so far as it is due to the interference and he shall be entitled to enter into such an undertaking notwithstanding the existence of such a contract.
§ (3) Section six of the principal Act shall apply to a workman who had before the passing of the principal Act entered into an undertaking of a nature similar to that mentioned in that Section in like manner as if the undertaking had been entered into in pursuance of that Section.
§ Amendment made: In Sub-section (3) leave out the words "a nature similar to that" and insert instead thereof the words "the nature."—[Mr. Lloyd George.]