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The Agricultural Wages Committees (Amendment) Regulations 1982

S.I. 1982/1182 · Made 17 August 1982

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AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT

AGRICULTURAL WAGES

Made 17th August 1982

Laid before Parliament 27th August 1982

Coming into Operation 17th September 1982

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food as respects England, and the Secretary of State as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2 and 17 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Agricultural Wages Act 1948, and now vested in the said Minister in relation to England and the Secretary of State in relation to Walesf1, and of all their other enabling powers, hereby make the following regulations:—

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Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1978/272.

Contents

  1. 1Title, commencement and interpretation
  2. 2Amendment of the principal regulations
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Title, commencement and interpretation

(1)

These regulations may be cited as the Agricultural Wages Committees (Amendment) Regulations 1982, and shall come into operation on 17th September 1982.

(2)

In these regulations “the principal regulations” means the Agricultural Wages Committees Regulations 1949f1, and, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference herein to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the principal regulations.

2Amendment of the principal regulations

(1)

The principal regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 2 the definition of “The Executive Committee” shall be omitted.

(3)

For paragraph (3) of regulation 3 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:

“(3)

Such members shall, in the case of representatives of workers in agriculture, be nominated by the General Executive Council”.

(4)

In paragraph (4) of regulation 3 the words “the Executive Committee” shall be omitted.

(5)

In regulation 6 the words “the Executive Committee” and the words “Executive Committee” shall be omitted.

Signature

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 16th August 1982.

L.S.

Peter Walker

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Michael Roberts

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales

17th August 1982

Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Agricultural Wages Committees Regulations 1949 (as amended) by providing that the members of Agricultural Wages Committees representing workers in agriculture shall be nominated solely by the General Executive Council of the Transport and General Workers' Union and not, as previously, by that Council and the Executive Committee of the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers. Consequential amendments are made to regulations 2, 3 and 6 of the 1949 Regulations.