Wages Councils Act 1959

Wages Councils Act 1959[a]
Act of Parliament
coat of arms
Long titleAn Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Wages Councils.
Citation7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 69
Territorial extent [b]
Dates
Royal assent29 July 1959
Commencement29 August 1959[c]
Repealed22 April 1979
Other legislation
AmendsSee § Repealed enactments
Repeals/revokesSee § Repealed enactments
Amended by
Repealed byWages Councils Act 1979
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Wages Councils Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 69) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to wages councils.[1]

Provisions

Repealed enactments

Section 26 of the act repealed 5 enactments, listed in the sixth schedule to the act.[2]

Citation Short title Extent of repeal
8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 17 Wages Councils Act 1945 The whole act.
9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 62 National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act 1946 In section six, paragraph (c).
9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 67 National Insurance Act 1946 In section six, in subsection (4), paragraph (c).
12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 7 Wages Councils Act 1948 The whole act, except the words from "Parts II" to the end in paragraph (c) of subsection (i) of section one and the First Schedule.
7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 26 Terms and Conditions of Employment Act 1959 The whole act, except section eight and so much of subsection (1) of section nine as provides for the short title.

Subsequent developments

Schedule 6 to the act was repealed by section 1 of, and part XI of the schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974, which came into force on 27 June 1974.[3]

The act was repealed by section 31(3) of, and schedule 7 to, the Wages Councils Act 1979, which came into force on 22 April 1979.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Section 27(1).
  2. ↑ Section 27(3).
  3. ↑ Section 27(2).

References

  1. ↑ Lane, Jacqueline Ann (4 January 2018). A Watershed Decade in British Industrial Relations, 1965 to 1974? The Donovan Commission Report, In Place of Strife and the Industrial Relations Act of 1971 (doctoral thesis). University of Huddersfield.
  2. ↑ "Wages Councils Act 1959", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, Eliz2/7-8 c. 69
  3. ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1974 c. 22
  4. ↑ "Wages Councils Act 1979", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1979 c. 12