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[Ch. 55.] Application of Part IV.

66.—(1) The employees to whom this Part of this Act applies are those employed by the railway companies hereinafter mentioned and the Railway Clearing House in the grades of employees included in the several national agreements referred to in the to this Act (other than employees who, in accordance with the classification for the time being in force, are in the special class), and such other grades of employees as the parties to such schemes as aforesaid may hereafter agree to include in the schemes.

(2) The railway companies herein before referred to are,, until the amalgamation schemes come into operation, the railway companies mentioned in the second and third columns of the to this Act of whose undertakings the Minister was in possession on the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, including, as respects any railways jointly owned or worked by two or more of such companies, a joint committee of those companies, and after those schemes come into operation the amalgamated companies, including, as respects any railways jointly owned or worked by two or more of those companies, a joint committee of those companies.

Railway police force conferences.

67—(1)Arrangements shall be made for establishing for each railway company affected a conference consisting of an equal number of representatives of the company and of the members of the police force of that company to which all questions relating to rates of pay, hours of duty, and conditions of service of members of the police force of the company shall be referred with an appeal to the central conference established hereunder.

(2) A central conference shall be established for the whole of the railways of Great Britain, and shall consist of an equal number of representatives of the railway companies and of the police force, elected from the conferences of the separate railways. In the event of disagreement between the two sides of the central conference, an independent chairman shall be appointed with power to give binding decisions, such chairman to be selected by mutual agreement or, failing agreement, to be nominated by the Minister of Labour.

(3) From and after the amalgamation under this Act of the constituent companies in each group there shall be one conference only for each amalgamated company, and 57