Agricultural Produce (Cereals) Act, 1933

Rate of wages and conditions of employment at mills.

22.—(1) Wages payable to a workman employed at a licensed mill shall be at a rate not less than the rate generally recognised by trade unions and employers as the rate applicable to workmen employed in a similar kind of work at similar licensed mills.

(2) The conditions of employment (other than the rate of wages) of a workman employed at a licensed mill shall not be less advantageous than the conditions of employment generally recognised by trade unions and employers as the conditions of employment applicable to workmen employed in a similar kind of work at similar licensed mills.

(3) If at any licensed mill the provisions of this section in relation to any workman employed at such mill are not observed, the holder of the milling licence in respect of such mill shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to the penalties mentioned in Part II of the First Schedule to this Act.

(4) In this section the expression “licensed mill” means a mill which is the subject of a milling licence.