Commonwealth Numbered Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1988 No. 86 of 1988 - SECT 149

149. Subject to any order of the Commission, an award determining an
industrial dispute is binding on:

   (a)  all parties to the industrial dispute who appeared or were represented
        before the Commission;

   (b)  all parties to the industrial dispute who were summoned or notified
        (either personally or as prescribed) to appear as parties to the
        industrial dispute (whether or not they appeared);

   (c)  all parties who, having been notified (either personally or as
        prescribed) of the industrial dispute and of the fact that they were
        alleged to be parties to the industrial dispute, did not, within the
        time prescribed, satisfy the Commission that they were not parties to
        the industrial dispute;

   (d)  any successor, assignee or transmittee (whether immediate or not) to
        or of the business or part of the business of an employer who was a
        party to the industrial dispute, including a corporation that has
        acquired or taken over the business or part of the business of the
        employer;

   (e)  all organisations and persons on whom the award is binding as a common
        rule; and

   (f)  all members of organisations bound by the award.