3.—(1) Before making an order under section 14 of the Act a wages council shall publish notice of any rate or limit which the council proposes to fix under subsection (1) of that section, and, subject to paragraph (2) that notice shall be published in the London and Edinburgh Gazettes.
(2) Where the issue of the London or Edinburgh Gazette in which the notice was expected to appear does not contain the notice, or where the council has reason to believe that the issue of the London or Edinburgh Gazette in which it wishes the notice to appear will not be published or will be published late, the council may publish the notice in an English national daily newspaper instead of the London Gazette or, as the case may be, in a Scottish national daily newspaper instead of the Edinburgh Gazette.
(3) The date to be taken for the purposes of the Act as the date of publication of a notice to which paragraph (1) refers shall be the first or only date on which the notice is published in England and Scotland or, if the notice is published on different dates in those countries, the date on which it is first published in the country in which it is published second.