Industrial Relations Act 1996

Any person exercising the trade or calling of a pastrycook, whether an employer of labour or not, or any person employed in such a trade or calling, who in any area makes or bakes for trade or sale any pastry before the time that may be fixed by a State award for the time being in force in the area for the commencement of ordinary hours of work by employees engaged in the making or baking of pastry, or after the time that may be so fixed for the cessation of the ordinary hours of work by employees so engaged, is guilty of an offence.

The Minister may, in the case of any emergency or unforeseen circumstances, or in order to meet the exigencies of the trade carried on in a particular bakehouse, exempt any person exercising or employed in the trade or calling of a pastrycook from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this clause for such periods and subject to such conditions as the Minister determines.

A person who contravenes a condition of an exemption under this clause is guilty of an offence.

In this clause—

This clause (with minor modifications) re-enacts Division 5 of Part 4 of the Shops and Industries Act 1962. This clause is a transferred provision to which section 30A of the Interpretation Act 1987 applies.