WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 322 Single business and single employer

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 322

             (1)  For the purposes of this Part, a single business is:

                     (a)  a business, project or undertaking that is carried on by an employer; or

                     (b)  the activities carried on by:

                              (i)  the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or

                             (ii)  a body, association, office or other entity established for a public purpose by or under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; or

                            (iii)  any other body in which the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory has a controlling interest.

             (2)  For the purposes of this Part:

                     (a)  if 2 or more employers carry on a business, project or undertaking as a joint venture or common enterprise, the employers are taken to be one employer; and

                     (b)  if 2 or more corporations that are related to each other for the purposes of the Corporations Act 2001 each carry on a single business:

                              (i)  the corporations may be treated as one employer; and

                             (ii)  the single businesses may be treated as one single business.

             (3)  For the purposes of this Part, a part of a single business includes, for example:

                     (a)  a geographically distinct part of the single business; or

                     (b)  a distinct operational or organisational unit within the single business.