Workplace Relations Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1997

No. 56 1

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Workplace Relations Regulations2(Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Workplace Relations Act 1996.

Dated 19 March 1997.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER REITH

Minister for Industrial Relations

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PART 1—PRELIMINARY

1.   Commencement

1.1  Part 3 is taken to have commenced on 5 March 1997.

[NOTE: The remainder of these Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

PART 2—AMENDMENTS OF PRINCIPAL REGULATIONS

2.   Amendment

2.1   The Workplace Relations Regulations are amended as set out in this Part.

3.   Regulation 5 (Prescribed State industrial authorities—section 13 and subsections 16 (2) and 175 (1), (2) and (5) of the Act)

3.1  Omit the regulation, substitute:

Prescribed State industrial authorities—section 13 and subsections 16 (2) and 175 (1), (2) and (5) of the Act

 “5. For the purposes of section 13 and subsections 16 (2) and 175 (1), (2) and (5) of the Act, each of the following State industrial authorities is prescribed:

• “(a)

  the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales;

• (b)

  the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission;

• (c)

  the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission;

• (d)

  the Industrial Relations Commission of South Australia;

• (e)

  the Tasmanian Industrial Commission.”.

4.   Schedule 6 (Modifications of Part VIB, and other provisions, of the Act as applied as a law of a State)

4.1   Part 1:

Omit the Part, substitute:

 “Part 1 Subregulation 30ZF (1)

MANDATORY MODIFICATIONS

601.   Section 170LH (What this Division covers)

601.1   Omit ‘who are constitutional corporations or the Commonwealth’, substitute ‘other than constitutional corporations or the Commonwealth’.

602.   Section 170LI (Nature of agreement)

602.1   Paragraph 170LI (1) (a):

Omit the paragraph, substitute:

• ‘(a)

  an employer other than a constitutional corporation or the Commonwealth; and’.

603.   Division 3 (Making agreements about industrial disputes and industrial situations)

603.1   Omit the Division.”.

PART 3—AMENDMENTS OF AMENDING REGULATIONS

5.   Amendment

5.1   Statutory Rules 1997 No. 48 is amended as set out in this Part.

6.   Regulation 1 (Commencement)

6.1   Subregulation 1.2:

Omit the subregulation, substitute:

“1.2   Regulation 9 (except in so far as it inserts new regulation 30ZN) and regulation 17 (except in so far as it inserts new Schedule 11) commence on the same day as Schedule 10 to the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996.

“1.2A   Regulation 9 (in so far as it inserts new regulation 30ZN) and regulation 17 (in so far as it inserts new Schedule 11) commence on 19 March 1997.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 19 March 1997.

2. Statutory Rules 1989 No. 12 as amended by 1989 Nos. 107 and 288; 1990 Nos. 328 and 461; 1991 Nos. 9, 11, 73, 137 and 366; 1992 Nos. 81, 139, 158, 232, 274, 339, 351, 357, 435 and 436; 1993 Nos. 22, 23, 41, 61, 128 and 330; 1994 Nos. 68, 79, 185, 244, 287 and 386; 1995 Nos. 376 and 434; 1996 Nos. 80, 168, 269, 307, 328, 329 and 351; 1997 No. 48.