THE ARBITRATION ACT.
QUESTION OF AGREEMENTS. LEGAL OPINION OBTAINED. [Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Jan, 5. The Otago Employers’ Association having found in the new Arbitration Act no provision for agreements between parties being made into awards by the" Arbitration Court, and as this would lead to industrial councils being ignored, wrote to the Alinister of Labor, who replied. enclosing an opinion of Air D. AF. Findlay, -solicitor. Wellington. This opinion is that where an amicable settlement was aimed at reference to the, council -would be pure supererogation, and if taken to the council it could not do more than notifv the vact- to the Court to constitute the agreement an a waul. Parties to an industrial acreement may enter into a binding a brer men t to ’make an agreement an award. Tlic Court of Arbitration has iurFtlsction to constitute an agiee nient an award without reference to the Clerk of Awards, alter modmeai.jon bv the Council. If the Comt of bit ration assume* tne on gin a* jurisdiction its decision ana the award made would not be impeaenab’.e. ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2392, 6 January 1909, Page 5
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178THE ARBITRATION ACT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2392, 6 January 1909, Page 5
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