General provisions as to wages councils

(1) The Schedule shall have effect with respect to the constitution, officers and proceedings of wages councils. (2) A wages council shall consider, as occasion requires, any matter referred to it by the Minister with reference to the industrial conditions prevailing as respects the workers and employers in relation to whom it operates, and shall make a report upon the matter to the Minister, and a wages council may, if it thinks it expedient to do so, make of its own motion a recommendation to the Minister with reference to the said 9 conditions and, where such a recommendation is so made, the Minister shall forthwith take it into consideration.