Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1988 No. 86 of 1988 - SECT 119

119. (1) For the purpose of the performance of a function, or the exercise of
a power, of the Commission in relation to an industrial dispute, a member of
the Commission may, of the member's own motion or on application made by a
party to, or intervener in, the industrial dispute, direct a person to attend,
at a specified time and place, a conference to be presided over by a member of
the Commission or another person nominated by the President.

(2) A direction may be given to any person whose presence at the conference
the member of the Commission considers would help in the prevention or
settlement of the industrial dispute.

(3) In determining the persons to whom directions are to be given, the member
of the Commission shall have regard to the persons having the highest degree
of authority to negotiate, for the prevention or settlement of the
industrial dispute, on behalf of the parties to the industrial dispute.

(4) A direction may be given orally or by signed instrument by, or by
telegraph, telex, facsimile service or other similar means of communication
from:

   (a)  a member of the Commission; or

   (b)  a Registrar at the request of a member of the Commission.

(5) The conference shall be held in private except to the extent that the
person presiding over the conference directs that it be held in public.