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Queensland
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
LEGISLATION
AMENDMENT BILL (No. 2)
1995
Queensland
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL
(No. 2) 1995
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
PART 2--AMENDMENT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT
1990
3 Act amended in pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4 Amendment of s 8 (Membership of Court) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5 Amendment of s 74 (Jurisdiction of Industrial Magistrate) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6 Amendment of s 79 (Industrial Registrar and staff) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7 Amendment of s 80 (Functions etc. of Industrial Registrar) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
8 Amendment of s 81 (Functions etc. of Assistant Industrial Registrar) . . . . 6
9 Amendment of s 291 (When dismissal is unlawful) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
10 Amendment of s 293 (Notice of dismissal or compensation to be
given) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
11 Amendment of s 297 (Orders for unlawful dismissal other than
under s 307) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
PART 3--AMENDMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT
AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1988
12 Act amended in pt 3 and sch 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
13 Replacement of s 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
21 Creation and abolition of offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
14 Omission of sch 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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PART 4--AMENDMENT OF ANOTHER ACT
15 Amended Act--sch 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
SCHEDULE 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
AMENDMENTS OF PUBLIC SERVICE MANAGEMENT AND
EMPLOYMENT ACT 1988 CONSEQUENTIAL ON OMISSION
OF SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
AMENDMENT OF ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 1954
1995
A BILL
FOR
An Act to amend the Industrial Relations Act 1990 and the Public
Service Management and Employment Act 1988, and for related
purposes
s1 4 s4
Industrial Relations Legislation Amendment
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The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
PART 1--PRELIMINARY 2
title 3
Short
Clause 1. This Act may be cited as the Industrial Relations Legislation 4
Amendment Act (No. 2) 1995. 5
6
Commencement
Clause 2.(1) Section 13 commences on 1 January 1996. 7
(2) The remaining provisions of part 3 commence on a day to be fixed 8
by proclamation. 9
PART 2--AMENDMENT OF INDUSTRIAL 10
RELATIONS ACT 1990 11
amended in pt 2 12
Act
Clause 3. This part amends the Industrial Relations Act 1990. 13
of s 8 (Membership of Court) 14
Amendment
Clause 4. After section 8(4)-- 15
insert-- 16
`Example-- 17
18
The President may nominate a person to act in a temporarily vacant office.'.
s5 5 s7
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of s 74 (Jurisdiction of Industrial Magistrate) 1
Amendment
Clause 5. Section 74(a)-- 2
insert-- 3
`(viii)claims for compensation payable under section 293;1'. 4
of s 79 (Industrial Registrar and staff) 5
Amendment
Clause 6.(1) Section 79(1) and (2)-- 6
omit, insert-- 7
`79.(1) There is to be an Industrial Registrar and an Assistant Industrial 8
Registrar. 9
`(2) The Industrial Registrar and Assistant Industrial Registrar are to be 10
appointed under the Public Service Management and Employment Act 11
1988.'. 12
(2) Section 79(3), `each', first mention-- 13
omit. 14
of s 80 (Functions etc. of Industrial Registrar) 15
Amendment
Clause 7.(1) Section 80(1)(c), `has and may exercise such powers, and'-- 16
omit. 17
(2) Section 80(1)-- 18
insert-- 19
`(d) has any other function conferred on the Industrial Registrar under 20
this Act.'. 21
(3) Section 80(2)-- 22
renumber as section 80(4). 23
1 Section 293 (Notice of dismissal or compensation to be given)
s8 6 s 10
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(No. 2)
(4) Section 80-- 1
insert-- 2
`(2) The Industrial Registrar has the power to do all things necessary or 3
convenient to be done for, or in connection with, the performance of the 4
Industrial Registrar's functions. 5
`(3) The Industrial Registrar may delegate a power of the Industrial 6
Registrar under this Act to-- 7
(a) the Assistant Industrial Registrar; or 8
(b) another person nominated by the President.'. 9
(5) Section 80(4) as renumbered, from `exercise of' to `such duties'-- 10
omit, insert-- 11
`performance of a function under subsection (1)(c),'. 12
of s 81 (Functions etc. of Assistant Industrial Registrar) 13
Amendment
Clause 8. Section 81(2) to (4)-- 14
omit. 15
of s 291 (When dismissal is unlawful) 16
Amendment
Clause 9. Section 291(2)(a), after `having regard to'-- 17
insert-- 18
`all of the circumstances of the case, including'. 19
of s 293 (Notice of dismissal or compensation to be given) 20
Amendment
Clause 10. Section 293-- 21
insert-- 22
`(6) If an employer dismisses an employee, to whom subsection (1)(a) 23
applies, without giving the employee the required notice or compensation-- 24
(a) on an application for reinstatement of an employee--the 25
Commission may order the employer to pay the employee the 26
s 11 7 s 12
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compensation that the employer was required to pay under 1
subsection (4); or 2
(b) otherwise--an industrial magistrate may order the employer to 3
pay the employee the compensation that the employer was 4
required to pay under subsection (4).'. 5
of s 297 (Orders for unlawful dismissal other than under 6
Amendment
s 307) 7
Clause 11.(1) Section 297(1), after `considers appropriate'-- 8
insert-- 9
`, in all the circumstances of the case,'. 10
(2) Section 297(2), after `it may'-- 11
insert-- 12
`, if it considers it appropriate in all the circumstances of the case,'. 13
(3) Section 297(3), after `(2)(a)'-- 14
insert-- 15
`and it considers it appropriate in all the circumstances of the case'. 16
PART 3--AMENDMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE 17
MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1988 18
amended in pt 3 and sch 1 19
Act
Clause 12. This part and schedule 1 amends the Public Service Management and 20
Employment Act 1988. 21
s 13 8 s 15
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of s 21 1
Replacement
Clause 13. Section 21-- 2
omit, insert-- 3
and abolition of offices 4
`Creation
`21.(1) The Governor in Council may create or abolish offices in 5
departments. 6
`(2) The Governor in Council may delegate the power to create or abolish 7
offices in a department to the chief executive of the department. 8
`(3) The delegation may authorise the chief executive to subdelegate the 9
power delegated to the chief executive. 10
`(4) This section does not apply to senior executive service positions.'. 11
of sch 1 12
Omission
Clause 14. Schedule 1-- 13
omit. 14
ART 4--AMENDMENT OF ANOTHER ACT 15
P
Act--sch 2 16
Amended
Clause 15. Schedule 2 amends the Act mentioned in it. 17
18
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CHEDULE 1 1
¡S
AMENDMENTS OF PUBLIC SERVICE 2
MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYMENT ACT 1988 3
CONSEQUENTIAL ON OMISSION OF SCHEDULE 1 4
section 12 5
1. Section 4(1), definition "department"-- 6
omit, insert-- 7
` "department" means an entity that is a department of government under 8
this Act, and includes every entity that is attached to the department for 9
administrative purposes.'. 10
2. Section 4(1), definition "public service", `the departments specified 11
in schedule 1'-- 12
omit, insert-- 13
`departments'. 14
3. Sections 8 to 10-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`Creation of departments etc. 17
`8.(1) The Governor in Council may, by proclamation-- 18
(a) create or discontinue departments of government; or 19
(b) name or change the name of departments of government. 20
`(2) The Governor in Council may, by proclamation or gazette notice-- 21
(a) amalgamate a part of a department with another department; or 22
(b) transfer an entity to a department; or 23
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SCHEDULE 1 (continued)
(c) amalgamate another entity with a department; or 1
(d) discontinue a part of a department. 2
`Functions of departments 3
`9. The Governor in Council may, by proclamation-- 4
(a) give functions to a department; or 5
(b) change functions given to a department. 6
`Additional powers of Governor in Council 7
`10.(1) The Governor in Council may, by proclamation, prescribe 8
anything necessary or convenient to be prescribed-- 9
(a) to enable a proclamation to be made under section 8 or 9; or 10
(b) for carrying out or giving effect to a proclamation under section 8 11
or 9. 12
`(2) The Governor in Council may, by gazette notice, prescribe anything 13
necessary or convenient to be prescribed-- 14
(a) to enable a gazette notice to be made under section 8(2); or 15
(b) for carrying out or giving effect to a gazette notice under 16
section 8(2). 17
`(3) The Governor in Council may do anything else that the Governor in 18
Council considers necessary or desirable to be done-- 19
(a) to enable a proclamation or gazette notice to be made under 20
section 8 or 9; or 21
(b) for carrying out or giving effect to a proclamation or gazette 22
notice under section 8 or 9. 23
`Examples of action to enable proclamation or gazette notice to be made-- 24
25
1. Creation of an entity.
26
2. Amalgamation of a department with another department.
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SCHEDULE 1 (continued)
`Examples of action for carrying out or giving effect to proclamation or gazette notice-- 1
2
1. Transfer of position from a department to another department.
3
2. Transfer of officers and employees from a department to another department.'.
4. Section 11-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`Chief executives 6
`11.(1) Each department is to be under the control of a chief executive. 7
`(2) The Governor in Council may, by proclamation, specify the title of 8
office by which the chief executive in control of a department is to be 9
known. 10
`(3) A chief executive is to be appointed by the Governor in Council by 11
gazette notice. 12
`(4) A person appointed as chief executive under this Act holds office on 13
the conditions of appointment prescribed under this Act for the employment 14
of chief executives. 15
`(5) This section is subject to the provisions of any other Act about an 16
office established under an Act other than this Act.'. 17
5. After section 42A-- 18
insert-- 19
`Proclamations under Act subordinate legislation 20
`42B.(1) A proclamation under this Act is subordinate legislation. 21
`(2) However, the Statutory Instruments Act 1992, section 502 does not 22
apply to a proclamation under this Act. 23
2 Section 50 (Disallowance)
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SCHEDULE 1 (continued)
`(3) Subsection (2) has effect despite the Statutory Instruments Act 1992, 1
section 52.3'. 2
6. After section 43-- 3
insert-- 4
`References to department 5
`44. In an Act or document, a reference to a department specified or 6
mentioned in schedule 1 of this Act may, if the context permits, be taken to 7
be a reference to an entity that is a department of government under this 8
Act.'. 9
7. Schedule 2-- 10
renumber as schedule. 11
12
3 Section 52 (Other notification, gazettal, tabling or disallowance provisions of no
effect)
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CHEDULE 2 1
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MENDMENT OF ACTS INTERPRETATION ACT 2
A
1954 3
section 15 4
1. Section 33(4B)-- 5
omit, insert-- 6
`(4B) In an Act, a reference to a department is a reference to an entity that 7
is a department of government under the Public Service Management and 8
Employment Act 1988.'. 9
2. Section 33(4A) to (7)-- 10
renumber as section 33(5) to (14). 11
12
© State of Queensland 1995
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