WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 471 Compliance with orders and directions
This legislation has been repealed.
WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 471
Compliance with orders and directions(1) A person to whom an order or a direction under this Division is expressed to apply must comply with the order or direction.
(2) Subsection (1) is a civil remedy provision.
(3) The Court may order a person who has contravened subsection (1) to pay a pecuniary penalty.
(4) The pecuniary penalty cannot be more than 300 penalty units for a body corporate or 60 penalty units in any other case.
(5) An application for an order under subsection (3) may be made by:
(a) an employee who is eligible to be included on the roll of voters for the protected action ballot concerned; or
(b) an employer of employees referred to in paragraph (a); or
(c) an applicant for the order for the protected action ballot concerned to be held; or
(d) a workplace inspector; or
(e) any other person prescribed by the regulations.
Note: For other provisions about civil remedy provisions, see Division 3 of Part 14.