EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT 1982 - As at 5 December 2023 - Act 122 of 1982 - NOTES
EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACT 1982 - As at 5 December 2023 - Act 122 of 1982 - NOTES
Does not include amendments by--
Industrial Relations Amendment Act 2023 No 41 (not commenced)
Reprint history:
Reprint No 1 10 October 1983
Reprint No 2 28 July 1993
Historical notes
The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:
| Am | amended | LW | legislation website | Sch | Schedule |
| Cl | clause | No | number | Schs | Schedules |
| Cll | clauses | p | page | Sec | section |
| Div | Division | pp | pages | Secs | sections |
| Divs | Divisions | Reg | Regulation | Subdiv | Subdivision |
| GG | Government Gazette | Regs | Regulations | Subdivs | Subdivisions |
| Ins | inserted | Rep | repealed | Subst | substituted |
Table of amending instruments
Employment Protection Act 1982 No 122. Assented to 7.12.1982. Date of commencement, secs 1 and 2 excepted, 8.12.1982, sec 2 (1) (2) and GG No 171 of 8.12.1982, p 5611. This Act has been amended as follows:| 1983 | No 19 | Employment Protection (Amendment) Act
1983. Assented to 21.4.1983. Date of commencement of Sch 1 (1) and (5), 8.12.1982, sec 2 (3); date of commencement of Sch 1 (other than items (1) and (5)), 29.4.1983, sec 2 (4) and GG No 65 of 29.4.1983, p 1993. |
| 1990 | No 113 | Industrial Arbitration (Enterprise Agreements)
Amendment Act
1990. Assented to 18.12.1990. Date of commencement, 25.1.1991, sec 2 and GG No 18 of 25.1.1991, p 650. |
| 1991 | No 17 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act
1991. Assented to 3.5.1991. Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Employment Protection Act 1982, assent, sec 2. |
| No 34 | Industrial Relations Act 1991. Assented to 11.11.1991. Date of commencement, 31.3.1992, sec 2 and GG No 40 of 27.3.1992, p 1978. | |
| 1992 | No 112 | Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1992. Assented to 8.12.1992. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2. |
| 1996 | No 30 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act
1996. Assented to 21.6.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3). |
| No 121 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No
2)
1996. Assented to 3.12.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 4.18, 4 months after assent, sec 2 (4). | |
| 1999 | No 31 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 1999. Assented to 7.7.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 5, assent, sec 2 (1). |
| 2001 | No 121 | Justices Legislation Repeal
and
Amendment Act 2001. Assented to 19.12.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 7.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5978. |
| 2005 | No 64 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act 2005. Assented to 1.7.2005. Date of commencement of Sch 2.11, assent, sec 2 (2). |
| No 98 | Statute Law (Miscellaneous
Provisions)
Act (No 2) 2005. Assented to 24.11.2005. Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2 (2). | |
| 2006 | No 97 | Industrial Relations Further
Amendment
Act 2006. Assented to 27.11.2006. Date of commencement of Sch 4, 2.2.2007, sec 2 and GG No 11 of 19.1.2007, p 163. |
| 2007 | No 21 | Payroll Tax Act
2007. Assented to 4.7.2007. Date of commencement, 1.7.2007, sec 2. |
| No 94 | Miscellaneous Acts (Local
Court)
Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009. | |
| 2009 | No 32 | Industrial Relations
Amendment
(Jurisdiction of Industrial Relations Commission) Act
2009. Assented to 9.6.2009. The Act was not commenced and was repealed by the Industrial Relations Amendment (Industrial Court) Act 2016 No 48. |
| 2016 | No 48 | Industrial Relations
Amendment
(Industrial Court) Act 2016. Assented to 18.10.2016. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 8.12.2016, sec 2 (1) and 2016 (674) LW 15.11.2016. |
Table of amendments
No reference is made to certain amendments made by Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996.| Sec 3 | Rep 1999 No 31, Sch 5.36. |
| Sec 4 | Am 1990 No 113, Sch 2; 2016 No 48, Sch 2.16 [1[#93]. |
| Sec 5 | Am 2007 No 21, Sch 4.1. |
| Sec 6 | Am 1983 No 19, Sch 1 (1). |
| Sec 6A | Ins 1991 No 34, Sch 3. Am 1996 No 121, Sch 4.18 [1[#93]-[3[#93]. |
| Sec 7 | Am 1983 No 19, Sch 1 (2); 1992 No 112, Sch 1. |
| Sec 8 | Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1. |
| Sec 11 | Am 2016 No 48, Sch 2.16 [2[#93]. |
| Sec 12 | Am 1983 No 19, Sch 1 (3); 2016 No 48, Sch 2.16 [3[#93]. |
| Sec 14 | Am 1983 No 19, Sch 1 (4); 1990 No 113, Sch 2; 2006 No 97, Sch 4.1 [1[#93] [2[#93]. |
| Sec 15 | Am 2016 No 48, Sch 2.16 [4[#93] [5[#93]. |
| Sec 16 | Am 1983 No 19, Sch 1 (5); 2005 No 64, Sch 2.11. |
| Sec 17 | Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1. |
| Sec 19 | Am 1991 No 17, Sch 1; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.97; 2005 No 98, Sch 3.21; 2007 No 94, Sch 2. |
| Sec 20 | Am 1991 No 17, Sch 1. |
| Sec 24 | Am 1992 No 112, Sch 1. |