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(2) To refer any such matter or any part of such matter to the Standing Labour Committee with a direction : (a) to make a report back to the Conference, or (b) make a recommendation to the Government.
(3) To appoint an ad hoc committee to consider any matter on the Agenda with a director to report: (a) to the Conference : (b) to the Standing Labour Committee with a view to making recommendation to Government and making a further report to the Conference.
The functions and powers of the Standing Labour Committee will be such as may be Conferred upon it by the Conference. It will be an agency of the conference and will derive its authority from the Conference and will, with the exception mentioned below, conduct no business other than that which has been delegated to it by the Conference. It will, however, be open to Government to refer a matter on which they want an early opinion direct to the Standing Labour Committee for report either to the Conference or the Government. But ordinarily any report or recommendation of the Standing Labour Committee should be made to the Conference.
“The powers of the Standing Labour Committee will be :
(i) to make recommendations or reports to the Conference on matters referred to it by the Conference ;
(ii) to make recommendations to Government in a case in which the Conference has directed the Standing Labour Committee to report to Government; and
(iii) to appoint ad hoc Committee to consider any matter on the Agenda with directions to report to the Standing Labour Committee.
Labour Welfare Committee
“The functions of the Labour Welfare Committee will be confined to matters relating to Labour Welfare and administration of Labour Legislation. Its powers will be to consider all such matters placed before it and to make recommendations to Government.
“These are my proposals for removing the organisational weaknesses that have been discovered. They are put before you in my personal capacity as a Member of this Conference. No greater weight attaches to them though the approach, I may say so, seems to me to