Kinematograph year book (1944)

138 The Kinematograph Year Book. (31). — Reference of disputes to High Court or Court of Session. (1) Any person who is aggrieved by any decision taken by the Board of Trade for the purpose of the performance of their duties in relation to the register, may, subject to rules of court, make application in the matter to the High Court, and the decision of that court on any such application shall be final and not subject to appeal to any other court. (2) In relation to any person whose principal place of business is in Scotland, the preceding sub-section shall have effect as if for any reference therein to the High Court there were substituted a reference to the Court of Session. (32). — Evidence of registration. The registration of a film may be proved by the production of — (a) a copy of the Board of Trade Journal containing a notification of the registration of the film, or (b) the certificate of registration issued, or, as the case may be, last issued in respect of the film, or (c) a copy of the entry in the register relating to the film, being a copy certified to be true by the officer having the custody of the register ; and a document purporting to be sue1* a certificate of registration, or to be such a certified copy as aforesaid, shall be evidence of the matters stated in the document, without proof of the signature or authority of the person signing it. (33). — Information to be given to exhibitors with respect to registration of films. (1) A renter who, in the period beginning at the commencement of this Act and ending with the thirtieth day of September nineteen hundred and forty-eight, delivers a registered film to an exhibitor in Great Britain for public exhibition therein shall, in such manner, and at such time, as may be prescribed, notify to the exhibitor the title and registered length of the film, the fact that it is registered as a British film or registered as a foreign film, as the case may be, and any such other particulars for the time being recorded in the register with respect to the film as may be prescribed. (2) If any renter fails to comply with the provisions of this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds. PART IV. PROVISIONS AS TO PERSONS EMPLOYED BY MAKERS OF CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS. (34). — Wages and conditions of employment of persons employed by makers o, cinematograph films. (1) The wages paid by any person carrying on in Great Britain the business of making films to which this Act applies to persons employed by him in connection with that business, and the conditions of employment of persons so employed, shall, unless agreed upon by the employer and by organisation 2 representative of the persons employed, be not less favourable to the person employed than the wages which would be payable, and the conditions which would have to be observed, under a contract which complied with the requirements of any resolution of the House of Commons for the time being in force applicable to contracts of Government departments ; and if any dispute arises as to what wages ought to be paid, or what conditions ought to be observed, in accordance with this section, it shall, if not otherwise disposed of, be referred by the Board of Trade to the industrial court for settlement. (2) Where any matter is referred to the industrial court under this section, the court, in arriving at its decision, shall have regard to any determination that may be brought to its notice relating to the wages or conditions of service of persons employed in a capacity similar to that of the persons to whom the reference relates, being a determination contained in a decision of a joint industrial council, conciliation board or other similar body, or in an agreement between organisations representative of employers and workpeople. (3) Where any award has been made by the industrial court upon a dispute referred to that court under this section, then, as from the date of the award or from such later date as the court may direct, it shall be an implied term of the contract between the employer and workers to whom the award applies that the rate of wages to be paid, or the conditions of employment to be observed, under the contract shall, until varied in accordance with the provisions of this section, be in accordance with the award.