Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY IMPROVEMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 42

             (1)  Division 9 of Part 3‑3 of the FW Act (which deals with payments for periods of industrial action) applies in relation to building work with the following modifications:

                     (a)  references in that Division to industrial action are to be read as references to building industrial action that is industrially‑motivated and constitutionally‑connected;

                     (b)  if the person who contravenes a civil remedy provision to which table item 21, 22, 23 or 24 of the table set out in section 539 of the FW Act relates is a body corporate--then, for the purposes of paragraph 546(2)(b) of that Act, the pecuniary penalty must not be more than 1,000 penalty units.

             (2)  Division 9 of Part 3‑3 of the FW Act (which deals with payments for periods of industrial action) does not apply to building work except as provided by this section.