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.
N.Y. Defense Emergency Act 1951 Law § 78