§ 78. Temporary restriction of jurisdiction of the board of standards
and appeals. For the limited purposes and duration of this article,
subdivision five of section one hundred sixty-one of the labor law is
hereby modified so as to relieve the board of standards and appeals of
jurisdiction to grant variations thereunder to employers engaged in
defense work and sole authority to grant dispensations hereunder to such
employers is hereby vested in the industrial commissioner subject to
appeal as provided in section seventy-five hereof. In other respects the
jurisdiction of the board of standards and appeals remains as
established.