1632

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 47

mental report and recommendation, and may give such decision as, in the circumstances, it thinks just and equitable; provided that the Committee shall not be obliged to make an adjustment in any case unless it is satisfied as to the merits of the application.

5. The decision of the Committee in respect of any application may be extended by the Committee, with such modifications or variations (if any) as the Committee thinks fit, to any other cases or classes of cases, whether or not application for relief under these regulations has been made.

6. A certificate of the decision of the Committee given under the hand of the Chairman shall be sufficient authority for failing to make any reduction or for making a reduction at a lower rate than the rate prescribed by the said Act, according to the tenor of the decision.

7. (1.) Where any workers to whom the said Act applies would be bound by any award under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, if they were employed by an employer bound by that award, then, notwithstanding anything in the said Act fixing the rates of reduction of wages, no reduction shall be made so as to reduce the rate of wages below the rate that would be payable under the award if it were applicable.

(2.) A certificate under the hand of the Chairman of the Adjustment Committee shall be sufficient evidence of the rate of wages that would be payable to any workmen if they were bound by an award as aforesaid.

8. (1.) In the case of persons employed by any university, college, or other institution to which section 10 of the said Act applies (not being persons to whom section 5 of the said Act applies), the adjustment of salaries to be made consequent on the reduction of grants from the Consolidated Fund as provided in that section shall be in the discretion of the governing bodies of those institutions.

(2.) For the purposes of this clause and of the said section 10 the grants referred to in that section shall be reduced or reducible as follows :—

(a.) As from 1st January, 1922, by an annual rate equal to 30 per cent. of any increase in the annual rate of grant made after 31st March, 1920;

(b.) As from 1st July, 1922 (or other date fixed in terms of the said Act by the Minister of Finance), by an annual rate not exceeding 20 per cent. of any such increase as aforesaid; and

(c.) As from 1st January, 1923 (or other date fixed in terms of the said Act by the Minister of Finance), by an annual rate not exceeding 13½ per cent. of any such increase as aforesaid.

9. For the purposes of the said Act the annual equivalent of a daily, hourly, or weekly rate of salary or wages shall be computed as follows :—

(a.) In the case of an hourly rate, the annual equivalent shall be: The hourly rate × the number of working-hours per week × 52.

(b.) In the case of a daily rate for six days a week, the annual equivalent shall be: The daily rate × 6 × 52.

(c.) In the case of a daily rate for seven days a week, the annual equivalent shall be: The daily rate × 7 × 52.

(d.) In the case of a weekly rate, the annual equivalent shall be: The weekly rate × 52.

10. For the purposes of the said Act the rate of remuneration of any person shall include all monetary grants of a continuing nature made as allowances for board, quarters, transit, or otherwise howsoever, but shall not include the monetary value of any house or equipment or other thing of which an officer may have the use without charge.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council

By Authority: W. A. G. SKINNER, Government Printer, Wellington.

Price, 6d.] [1060/6/22—8472