To provide for the Regulation of Wages of Workers in Agriculture, and for purposes incidental thereto. Presented by Mr. Buxton, supported by Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Attorney-General, and Mr. Walter Smith. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 14 April 1924. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE B.] ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES. Clause. 1. Establishment of agricultural wages committees and an Agricultural Wages Board. 2. 3. Duties and powers of agricultural wages committees with respect to minimum rates of wages. Rates fixed by committees. 4. Complaints as to inadequate payment for piece work where no minimum piece rate has been fixed. 5. Power of Agricultural Wages Board to fix, cancel or vary minimum rates in certain cases. 6. Power of the Minister to direct the reconsideration of minimum rates. 7. Penalties and legal proceedings. 8. Regulations. 9. Appointment and powers of officers. 10. Officers to produce certificates when required. A BILL [AS AMENDED BY STANDING COMMITTEE B] ΤΟ Provide for the Regulation of Wages of Workers A D. 1924 in Agriculture, and for purposes incidental thereto. BE E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows: 1. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the EstablishMinister of Agriculture and Fisheries (in this Act referred ment of to as the Minister) shall, as soon as may be, establish an agricultural agricultural wages committee for each county in England wages 10 and Wales, and an Agricultural Wages Board for England and an and Wales. committees Agricultural Wages (2) An agricultural wages committee and the Agri- Board. cultural Wages Board shall respectively be constituted in accordance with the provisions of the schedule to this 15 Act and shall be established by order made by the Minister. (3) The Minister may, if he thinks it expedient, establish one agricultural wages committee for two or more counties instead of a separate committee for each 20 county, and thereupon that committee shall be the agricultural wages committee for the combined counties and those counties shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be one county: Provided that a committee |