666
2. In its existing form the sub-section provides for (a) a combatant group (sub-divided by sub-section (3) into naval, military and air sections), (b) a key-posts group of persons whose services are primarily required in the work in which they are normally engaged and (c) a general group for essential services.
3. The definition attached to the key-posts group and the lack of definition for the general group for essential services has caused some misapprehension in the minds of the tribunal. employers, employees and the general public.
4. In the proposed substituted section a definition is attached to each of these two groups which should go far to remove that misapprehension. Under it the key-posts group will consist of persons who in the event of an emergency contemplated by the tribunal will be primarily required, in the opinion of the tribunal, to continue in the work in which they are normally engaged; whilst the essential services group will consist of persons who in the event of an emergency contemplated by the tribunal will be primarily required, in the opinion of the tribunal, to perform essential services which are not those in which they are normally engaged.
5. In the revised sub-section the three provisos have been re-arranged. The third proviso added by Government Notification No. 855 of the 23rd September, 1939, will become the first proviso. The original first proviso as amended by Government Notification No. 604 of the 31st May, 1940, will become the second proviso, and the original second proviso will become the third proviso. This rearrangement of the provisos is made for greater clearness.
June, 1910.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.