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FAIR WORK REGULATIONS 2009 - REG 1.15F Extension of Act beyond the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf

FAIR WORK REGULATIONS 2009 - REG 1.15F

Extension of Act beyond the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf

  (1)   For subsection   34(3) of the Act, the Act is extended to:

  (a)   an Australian employer; and

  (b)   an Australian - based employee;

in relation to the Australian Antarctic Territory.

  (2)   For subsection   34(3) of the Act, the provisions of the Act mentioned in the following table, and the rest of the Act so far as it relates to those provisions, are extended to:

  (a)   an Australian employer in relation to the employer's Australian - based employees; and

  (b)   an Australian - based employee in relation to the employee's employer if the same enterprise agreement applies to both of them;

in relation to all of the area outside the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

 

Item

Provision of the Act

1

Part   2 - 1--core provisions for Chapter   2

2

Part   2 - 2--the National Employment Standards

3

Part   2 - 3--modern awards

4

Part   2 - 6--minimum wages

5

Part   2 - 7--equal remuneration

6

Part   2 - 8--transfer of business

7

Part   2 - 9--other terms and conditions of employment

  (3)   For subsection   34(3) of the Act, the provisions of the Act mentioned in the following table, and the rest of the Act so far as it relates to those provisions, are extended to:

  (a)   an Australian employer in relation to the employer's Australian - based employees; and

  (b)   an Australian - based employee in relation to the employee's employer;

in relation to all of the area outside the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

 

Item

Provision of the Act

1

Part   2 - 1--core provisions for Chapter   2

2

Part   2 - 4--enterprise agreements

3

Part   2 - 5--workplace determinations

4

Part   3 - 3--industrial action

  (4)   For subsection   34(3) of the Act, Part   3 - 1 of the Act, and the rest of the Act so far as it relates to that Part, are extended to:

  (a)   an Australian employer; and

  (b)   an Australian - based employee;

in relation to all of the area outside the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

Note:   Part   3 - 1 of the Act relates to general protections.

  (5)   For subsection   34(3) of the Act, Part   3 - 2 of the Act, and the rest of the Act so far as it relates to that Part, are extended to an Australian - based employee in relation to the employee's Australian employer in relation to all of the area outside the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

Note:   Part   3 - 2 of the Act relates to unfair dismissal.

  (6)   For subsection   34(3) of the Act, Part   3 - 5 of the Act, and the rest of the Act so far as it relates to that Part, are extended to an Australian employer in relation to the employer's Australian - based employees in relation to all of the area outside the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

Note 1:   Part   3 - 5 of the Act relates to stand down.

Note 2:   Provisions of the Act that are specified as extending beyond the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf (including provisions relating to compliance and enforcement, administration and right of entry by reason of the extension of the rest of the Act, so far as it relates to the specified provisions) are subject to:

(a)   Australia's international obligations relating to foreign ships; and

(b)   the concurrent jurisdiction of a foreign State.