FAIR WORK ACT 1994 - SECT 8
FAIR WORK ACT 1994 - SECT 8
8—Jurisdiction to interpret awards and enterprise agreements
(1) SAET has
jurisdiction to interpret an award or enterprise agreement.
(2) In exercising its
interpretative jurisdiction—
(a) SAET
should have regard to any evidence that is reasonably available to it of what
the author of the relevant part of the award or enterprise agreement, and the
parties to the award or enterprise agreement, intended it to mean when it was
drafted; and
(b) if a
common intention is ascertainable—give effect to that intention.