2Commencement and application of Act

2 Commencement and application of Act

2 Commencement and application of Act

(1) This Act shall commence on a day not earlier than the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, to be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette not less than six weeks before the date of commencement.

(2) This Act shall apply to and in respect of town clerks, shire clerks, municipal engineers, shire engineers and health inspectors of any council, and to such other servant or servants or class of servants of councils as the Governor may by proclamation published in the Gazette from time to time direct.

Classes of servants may be defined in any such proclamation by reference to the occupation, age, sex, past service, or salary of the servants to whom this Act is to be applied.

(3) This Act shall also apply to and in respect of every veterinary inspector who shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be a servant of a pastures protection board as defined in the Pastures Protection Act 1934.

(4)

(a) This Act shall also apply to and in respect of such servant or servants or class of servants of any body or association of persons, corporate or unincorporate, as the Governor may by proclamation published in the Gazette from time to time direct.

(b) For the purposes of the application of the provisions of this Act to any such servants or class of servants a reference in this Act to a council or permanent servant shall be read and construed as a reference to any such body or association of persons or the servant of such body or association of persons to whom this Act is applied pursuant to paragraph (a), as the case may require.

(c) Classes of servants may be defined in any proclamation under this subsection by reference to the occupation, age, sex, past service, or salary of the servants to whom this Act is to be applied.

(5) Without affecting the operation of the foregoing provisions of this section, the Governor may by proclamation published in the Gazette declare any body or association of persons, corporate or unincorporate, to be an employing authority for the purposes of the definition of employer in section 15AL (1).

s 2: Am 1935 No 24, sec 2 (1) (a); 1940 No 49, sec 2 (a); 1948 No 33, sec 2 (a); 1975 No 101, Sch 5 (3); 1977 No 46, Sch 1 (2).