Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION RULES 1998 No. 1 - REG 49

(1) An application under Division 2 of Part VIB of the Act for certification
of an agreement that applies to a single business, or part of a single
business, between an employer and employees must be:

   (a)  in accordance with Form R29; and

   (b)  accompanied by:

        (i)    the agreement, signed by:

                (A)  the employer; and

                (B)  if the agreement was negotiated by an employee acting on
                     his or her own behalf and on behalf of other
                     employees-that employee; and

        (ii)   3 copies of the agreement, for the use of the Industrial
               Registry.

(2) The following persons must lodge with the application a statutory
declaration in accordance with Form R30 made by the person, or another person
authorised by that person, to do so:

   (a)  the employer, or, if subsection 170LB (2) of the Act applies, each
        employer or corporation, as the case requires;

   (b)  if the agreement was negotiated by an employee acting on his or her
        own behalf and on behalf of other employees-that employee;

   (c)  any organisation of employees that has notified the employer (or, if
        subsection 170LB (2) of the Act applies, each employer or corporation,
        as the case requires) in writing that it wants to be bound by the
        agreement.

(3) On the Commission fixing a time and place for the hearing of the
application, a Registrar must give notice, as directed by the Commission, of
the time and place so fixed to:

   (a)  each of the persons mentioned in paragraphs (2) (a), (b) and (c); and

   (b)  any other interested person, if the Commission so directs.