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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1979 - SECT 42J

42J .         Effect of enterprise order

        (1)         An enterprise order extends to and binds —

            (a)         all employees who are employed —

                  (i)         in any calling mentioned in the enterprise order in the industry or industries to which the enterprise order applies; and

                  (ii)         by the employer specified in the order under subsection (5)(a);

                and

            (b)         the employer specified in the order under subsection (5)(a),

                and no other employee or employer, and its scope is to be expressly so limited in the enterprise order.

        (2)         An enterprise order operates in the area specified in the order.

        (3)         To the extent that an enterprise order is in conflict with an award or industrial agreement, the enterprise order prevails.

        (4)         An enterprise order is enforceable under section 83 as if the order were an award and any organisation or association who is specified in the order under subsection (5) were a named party to the award.

        (5)         The Commission is to specify in the enterprise order —

            (a)         the employer to whom the enterprise order extends and who is bound by the enterprise order; and

            (b)         any organisation or association of employees that is a relevant negotiating party or person referred to in section 42I(1)(b), as the case requires.

        (6)         The employer specified under subsection (5)(a) is to be —

            (a)         the applicant for the enterprise order; or

            (b)         if the applicant for the enterprise order was an organisation or association of employees —

                  (i)         the negotiating party;

                  (ii)         the person referred to in section 42I(1)(b);

                  (iii)         the member of an organisation or association of employers that is a negotiating party; or

                  (iv)         the member of an organisation or association of employers that is a person referred to in section 42I(1)(b),

                specified in the application for the enterprise order.

        [Section 42J inserted by No. 20 of 2002 s. 133.]



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