§ 39. Mr. GEORGE HALLasked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether, in view of the fact that under the constitution of Southern Rhodesia he may withhold his assent to any legislation which enforces disability or discrimination on the ground of race, he can give any information upon the position as regards the Rhodesian Industrial Conciliation Act; and whether the Act 343 is yet in operation or whether, on the ground that natives are excluded from the scope of the Act, any advice has been tendered to His Majesty as to the exercise of His Majesty's power of disallowance?
The SECRETARY of STATE for DOMINION AFFAIRS (Mr. J. H. Thomas)The Southern Rhodesia Industrial Conciliation Act, 1934, contained provision that it should not come into operation unless and until the Governor had declared by Proclamation in the Gazette that it was His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the Act. After careful consideration of the terms of the Act, as passed by the Legislature of Southern Rhodesia, I informed the Governor on the 12th June last that His Majesty would not be advised to exercise his power of disallowance. A Proclamation was accordingly issued by the Acting Governor bringing the Act into operation as from the 20th July, 1934?