Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For paragraph 418 (f) of the Act, an employer must retain a signed copy of a workplace agreement for:
(a) the duration of the workplace agreement; and
(b) the period of 7 years after the workplace agreement is terminated.
(2) Regulation 19.20 applies to a workplace agreement as if a reference in that regulation to a record were a reference to a workplace agreement.
(3) Strict liability applies to the physical elements in subregulation (1).
Note For strict liability , see section 6.1 of the Criminal Code .
(4) Subregulation (1) is a civil remedy provision.
Note Part 14 of this Chapter sets out provisions dealing with contraventions of civil remedy provisions.
(5) It is a defence to a contravention of subregulation (1) that the workplace agreement:
(a) is a collective agreement; and
(b) does not include the signature of a person (other than the employer) because of the person's failure or refusal to sign the agreement.