WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 830 Public sector employer to act through employing authority

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 830

                   In spite of anything to the contrary in this Act, the BCII Act or any other law, the employer of an employee engaged in public sector employment shall, for the purposes of this Act, the BCII Act and the Rules of the Commission, act only by an employing authority of the employee acting on behalf of the employer and, in particular:

                     (a)  anything done by an employing authority of an employee has effect, for those purposes, as if it had been done by the employer of the employee; and

                     (b)  anything served on, or otherwise given or notified to, an employing authority of an employee has effect, for those purposes, as if it had been served on, or given or notified to, the employer of the employee.