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(3) By adding to Regulation 16 the following provisions as to age at entry of the classes of workmen shown :—

Age at Entry.

“ As a bus-driver or service-car driver 21 to 34 years last birthday.

“ As a vulcanizer, garage attendant, or labourer in the Road Services Branch 21 to 39 years last birthday.

“ As a garage assistant 15 to 20 years last birthday.”

By adding to the said regulation the following proviso :—

“ Provided further that in making appointments to the positions of garage attendant and labourer in the Road Services Branch, preference may be given to candidates aged not more than thirty-four years last birthday.”

(4) By adding to paragraph (a) of Regulation 71, immediately after the word “ Branches ” in the second line, the words “ and Road Services Branch.”

(5) By inserting in paragraph (2) of Regulation 104, immediately after the word “ night-watchmen ” in the second line, the words “ leading bus-drivers, leading service-car drivers, bus-drivers, service-car drivers, garage attendants, and garage assistants.”

(6) By inserting in the second line of Regulation 146, immediately after the word “ regulations ”, the number “ 123D ”.

(7) By amending paragraph (1) of Regulation 173 as follows :—

By inserting in subparagraph (i), immediately after the word “ Branch ” in the second line, the words “ and all members employed in the Road Services Branch who are classified as leading bus-drivers, leading service-car drivers, bus-drivers, or service-car drivers ”.

By adding to subparagraph (iv), immediately after the word “ hereof ” in the fifth line, the words “ and shall also include all members of Division II employed in the Road Services Branch other than those referred to in subparagraph (i) hereof ”.

(8) By adding the following regulations :—

“ ROAD SERVICES BRANCH.

“ 123A. (1) In the case of leading tradesmen, tradesmen, apprentices, vulcanizers, and labourers employed in the Road Services Branch, ordinary time shall be defined as follows : Eight hours per shift and forty hours per week.

“ (2) Time worked by any such employee in excess of eight hours in any shift shall be overtime, and shall be paid for at the rate of one and a half times the member’s ordinary rate of pay.

“ (3) Subject to the provision of paragraph (4) hereof, time worked by any such employee in excess of forty hours in any week shall be overtime, and shall be paid for as follows :—

“ (a) Time exceeding forty hours but not exceeding forty-four hours — at the member’s ordinary rate of pay.

“ (b) Time exceeding forty-four hours — at one and a half times the member’s ordinary rate of pay.

“ (4) Time worked in excess of eight hours in any shift shall not be taken into account in computing weekly overtime.

“ (5) Ordinary time as hereinbefore defined shall be exclusive of meal-times and time worked on any Sunday.

“ 123B. Leading tradesmen, tradesmen, apprentices, vulcanizers, and labourers employed in the Road Services Branch shall be paid at the rate of one and a quarter times the member’s ordinary rate of pay for all ordinary time worked between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.

“ 123C. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Regulation 143, the provisions thereof shall apply to apprentices in the Road Services Branch : Provided that in any particular case in which, in the opinion of the General Manager, it is impracticable for an apprentice in the Road Services Branch to fully comply with the provisions of the aforesaid regulation, the General Manager shall determine the extent to which such provisions shall apply, and, in respect of any requirement of the said regulation which he directs shall not apply, he may substitute such other requirement as he deems desirable.

“ 123D. (1) Notwithstanding that the Department is not a party to, nor bound by the Arbitration Court awards hereinafter referred to, the hours of duty, rest and meal intervals, rates and conditions of payment for overtime, payment for special trips and tours, holiday leave, and allowances for road or other expenses of the employees in the Road Services Branch who are referred to in this regulation shall be determined by reference to the provisions of such award, for the time being in force and made by order of the Arbitration Court under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1925, as is herein-after specified in each case, that is to say :—

“ (a) In the case of leading bus-drivers, leading service-car drivers, bus-drivers, and service-car drivers, the New Zealand Passenger Transport Drivers’ award ;

“ (b) In the case of garage attendants and garage assistants, the provisions of the New Zealand Motor Mechanics’ award relating to workers engaged as garage attendants and garage assistants on a weekly basis.

“ (2) Regulations 67, 68, 69, 114, 114B, 114C, 120, 124, 125, and 126 shall not apply to the employees referred to in this regulation.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendments to the Regulations under the Government Railways Acts.

GALWAY, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 17th day of December, 1938.

Present :

THE RIGHT HON. M. J. SAVAGE PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Government Railways Act, 1926, and its amendments, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend the regulations made under the Government Railways Act, 1908, on the twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two and published in the Gazette of the fifteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two (as from time to time amended and as the same are enuring under the Government Railways Act, 1926) in the manner following, that is to say :—

(1) By adding to Regulation 68 the following proviso, namely :—

“ Provided that the power conferred upon the General Manager by the foregoing part of this regulation shall be exercisable by any officer authorized in that behalf by the General Manager ”.

(2) By omitting paragraph (2) of Regulation 73, and substituting the following :—

“ (2) In any case where the shift of an employee in Division II is altered without notice or at short notice and in consequence of such alteration and through inability to make other arrangements such employee requires to purchase a meal during his period of duty, the General Manager, or any officer authorized by him, may, at his discretion, authorize the payment to such employee of an allowance not exceeding 2s. by way of reimbursement.”

(3) By adding to Regulation 73 as paragraph (3) thereof the following :—

“ (3) Where the payment of an allowance under the provisions of this regulation is claimed, the claimant shall, if required by the General Manager or any officer having power to authorize payment of the allowance, produce satisfactory evidence that he is entitled thereto.”

(4) By omitting the proviso to Regulation 77, and substituting the following in lieu thereof :—

“ Provided, however, that the General Manager, or any officer authorized by him, may, in any case, extend or reduce any period of time herein mentioned if, in his opinion, the circumstances of such case warrant such extension or reduction.”

(5) By adding the following regulation :—

“ 135A. The General Manager, or any officer authorized by him, may, at his discretion, authorize the payment to any medical practitioner in respect of the first medical treatment or examination of any employee injured in the course of his occupation of the whole cost of such first treatment or examination, notwithstanding that such cost shall exceed the sum of one pound.”

C. A. JEFFERY,
Clerk of the Executive Council,