Expenses

There shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund any expenses incurred by wages councils, commissions of inquiry, or officers in carrying into effect this Act. 21 SCHEDULE WAGES COUNCILS ACT Constitution, Officers and Proceedings of Wages Councils [Section 6 (1)] 1. A wages council shall consist of persons appointed by the Minister, being, (a) not more than three persons chosen by the Minister as being independent persons; (b) such number as the Minister thinks fit of persons who, in his opinion, represent employers in relation to whom the wages council or, as the case may be, the wages councils in question, is or are to operate; (c) such number as the Minister thinks fit of persons who, in his opinion, represent workers in relation to whom the wages council or, as the case may be, the wages councils in question, is or are to operate, Provided that where a trade union represents a substantial proportion of such workers, the trade union shall be represented on the wages council or wages councils in question. 2. Of the persons appointed under subparagraph (a) of paragraph 1 of this Schedule, one shall be appointed by the Minister to act as Chairman, and another may be appointed by the Minister to act as Deputy-Chairman in the absence of the Chairman. 22 Wages Councils 3. Before appointing a person under subparagraph (b) or subparagraph (c) of the said paragraph 1, the Minister shall consult any organisations appearing to him to represent employers or, as the case may be, workers, concerned and the persons appointed under those subparagraphs shall be equal in number. 4. The Minister may appoint a secretary and such officers as he thinks fit of a wages council. 5. The proceedings of a wages council shall not be invalidated by reason of any vacancy therein or by any defect in the appointment of a member. 6. A wages council may, if it thinks fit, delegate any of its powers under this Act (except the powers to submit wages regulation proposals) to a committee consisting of such number of persons, being members of the wages council, as the wages council thinks fit, Provided that the members of the committee representing employers and the members of the committee representing workers shall be equal in number. 7. The Minister may make regulations as to the meetings and procedure of a wages council and of any committee thereof, including regulations as to the quorum and the methods of voting, but, subject to this Act and to any regulations so made, a wages council and any committee thereof may regulate the procedure in such manner as it thinks fit. 8. The term for which a member of a wages council is to hold office shall be such as may be determined by the Minister at the time of his appointment, and the conditions subject to which he is to hold office shall be such as may be prescribed. 9. There shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the members of a wages council appointed under Wages Councils 23 paragraph 1 of this Schedule, such travelling and other allowances (including compensation for loss of working time) as may be approved by the Minister.