No. 51

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, 5 MAY 1977
Published by Authority
WELLINGTON: FRIDAY, 6 MAY 1977
Authorisation of the Christchurch 1977 Family Fair
PURSUANT to the Exhibitions Act 1910, the Minister of Trade
and Industry hereby gives notice as follows:

1. In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires,—
   “The Act” means the Exhibitions Act 1910;
   “The promoter” means the Mancan Foundation Limited;
   “The exhibition” means a public exhibition of works of
   industry and art to be conducted by the promoter at
   the Canterbury Court, Christchurch, from 9-15 May
   1977 (both dates inclusive), and to be known as the
   Christchurch 1977 Family Fair.
2. The exhibition is hereby authorised and declared to be an
   exhibition within the meaning of the Act.
3. Subject to the conditions set out in the Schedule hereto,
   the following provisions are hereby suspended in so far as
   they relate to work done or business conducted or services
   rendered in the said premises during the period of the exhibi-
   tion, by or on behalf of the promoter, or by and on behalf of
   any exhibitor at the exhibition, or by any person employed in
   or about the exhibition, namely—such of the provisions of—
   (a) The Industrial Relations Act 1973 and all collective
   agreements and awards in force thereunder;
   (b) The Shops and Offices Act 1955; and
   (c) The Factories Act 1946
   as relate to the hours of commencing or ceasing work or to
   the issue of permits, or to the payment for overtime, or
   extended hours, or to holidays and half-holidays, or to the
   closing of shops.
   SCHEDULE
4. Forty hours shall constitute a week’s work, to be worked
   on 5 days of the week, and 8 hours shall constitute a day’s
   work in or about the exhibition, and with the exception
   set out in clause 2 hereof, the daily hours shall be worked
   consecutively.
5. No person shall be employed in or about the exhibition
   for more than 4 hours without an interval of at least three
   quarters of an hour for a meal.
6. (a) Any person employed during any day in or about
   the exhibition who is employed on that day for more than
   8 hours, or before the hour of 8 a.m., or after the hour
   of 10.30 p.m., or on any day in excess of 5 days per week
   (whether the excess employment is in or about the exhibition
   or otherwise) shall be paid for the excess employment at not
   less than half as much again as the ordinary rate for the first
   2 hours and at not less than twice the ordinary rate thereafter.
   (b) Any person employed in or about the exhibition on any
   day that would, but for the provisions of this order, have been
   a whole holiday for that person by virtue of any Act, or of
   any collective agreements or awards shall be paid for all work
   done on that day at not less than twice the ordinary rate,
   whether the work is performed wholly in or about the exhibi-
   tion or otherwise. Provided that nothing in this subclause
   shall be deemed to deprive any person of any other payment
   for the said holiday to which he is entitled under any Act or
   collective agreements or awards.
7. No assistant under 18 years of age shall be employed
   in or about the exhibition after the hour of 10.30 p.m.
8. For the purposes of the enforcement of any collective
   agreements or awards, any provision of which has been sus-
   pended by this order, any officer of the industrial union or
   association concerned who is authorised in writing in that
   behalf by the union or association shall be entitled to inter-
   view at his place of employment any person employed in or
   about the exhibition under those collective agreements or
   awards at such time or times as may be agreed upon between
   the officer and the employer of that person, and for this
   purpose any such officer shall be entitled at any time to have
   access to the register of passes issued by the promoter.
9. Nothing in this notice shall be deemed to affect any pro-
   visions in any collective agreements or awards requiring
   workers subject to such collective agreements or awards to be
   members of a union.
   Dated at Wellington this 4th day of May 1977.
   P. I. WILKINSON,
   Acting Minister of Trade and Industry.