§ Amendments made:
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In page 3, line 29, leave out "applicable to him when he was," and insert:
which would have been applicable to him had he not been.
§ In line 36, leave out "four," and insert "twelve."
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In line 41, leave out from "not" to "or" in line 43, and insert:
before the expiration of one month after the termination of such service as aforesaid apply to the employer for reinstatement, or that, having been offered reinstatement by him, he failed without reasonable excuse, to present himself for employment at the time and place notified to him by the employer.
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In page 4, line 11, at the end, insert:
(2) For the purpose of securing the fair adjustment of contracts of service or apprenticeship in force between employers and employès when the employès are called out for military service under this Act, the Minister of Labour may make regulations relieving the parties to such contracts of all or any of their obligations thereunder in respect of the period of that military service, and may also make regulations modifying such contracts by extending the period of service or apprenticeship thereunder by a period not exceeding the period of the said military service and adapting the terms of the contracts in relation to any such extension.
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In line 21, leave out Sub-section (3) and insert:
(3) If the Minister of Labour is satisfied that it is necessary to restrain employers from terminating the employment of their employès by reason of any duties or liabilities which they are or may become liable to perform or discharge by virtue of the provisions of this Act, or to make provision for the prevention of evasion of the provisions of this Section, he may make regulations for those purposes, and such regulations may make provision for the punishment of breaches of the regulations and may in particular apply with respect to persons found guilty of such breaches of any of the provisions of this Section relating to persons found guilty of offences under this Section, with or without modifications.
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In line 26, at the end, add:
(4) Any regulations made under this Section by the Minister of Labour shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before Parliament; and if either House of Parliament within the period of forty days beginning with the day on which any such regulations as aforesaid are laid before it, resolves that the regulations be annulled, they shall thereupon become void, without prejudice, however, to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of new regulations.
In reckoning any such period of forty days as aforesaid no account shall be taken of any
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time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued, or during which both Houses are adjourned for more than four days.
(5) Section one of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, shall not apply to any regulations made under this Section."—[Sir V. Warrender.]
§ Clause, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.