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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1979 - SECT 37

37 .         Effect, area and scope of awards

        (1)         An award has effect according to its terms, but unless and to the extent that those terms expressly provide otherwise it shall, subject to this section — 

            (a)         extend to and bind — 

                  (i)         all employees employed in any calling mentioned therein in the industry or industries to which the award applies; and

                  (ii)         all employers employing those employees;

                and

            (b)         operate throughout the State, other than in the areas to which section 3(1) applies.

        [(2), (3)         repealed]

        (4)         An award, and any provision of an award, whether or not it has been made for a specified term, shall, subject to any variation made under this Act, remain in force until cancelled, suspended, or replaced under this Act unless, in the case of an award or a provision made for a specified term, it is expressly provided that the award or the provision, as the case may be, shall cease to operate upon the expiration of that term.

        (5)         Subsection (4) does not prevent the cancellation, suspension, or replacement of an award in part.

        [Section 37 amended by No. 94 of 1984 s. 66.]

[ 37A.         Repealed by No. 20 of 2002 s. 188.]



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