Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE AGREEMENTS ACT 1993

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title  
   2.      Commencement  
   3.      Interpretation  
   4.      Act overrides Industrial Relations Act 1979  

   PART 1A -- Phasing out and expiry of Act  

   4A.     Expiry of Act  
   4B.     Further workplace agreements cannot be made  
   4C.     Limit on duration of agreements registered on or after 22 March 2001  
   4D.     Limit on duration of arrangements under repealed section 19(4)(b)  
   4E.     Termination of unregistered individual workplace agreements  
   4F.     Limit on duration of agreements not covered by section 4C or 4E  
   4G.     Termination of effect of agreement under repealed section 23(1)  
   4H.     Employment conditions if workplace agreement or arrangement terminated or employee ceases to be a party  
   4I.     Rights, obligations and proceedings not affected by termination of agreement or arrangement  
   4J.     This Part to prevail  

   PART 2 -- Workplace agreements  

           Division 1 -- Purpose and effect of workplace agreements  

   5.      Workplace agreements  
   6.      Effect of workplace agreement  
   7.      Effect of workplace agreement on accrued entitlements  
   8.      Effect of addition of employee as party  

           Division 2 -- Making of workplace agreements  

   9.      Making of collective workplace agreement  
   10.     Making of individual workplace agreements  
   12.     Persons bound by workplace agreement  
   13.     Disposition etc. of business  
   14.     Termination of contract of employment  
   15.     Bargaining agents  

           Division 3 -- Contents and formalities  

   17.     Minimum conditions of employment  
   18.     Implied provision as to unfair dismissal  
   21.     Agreement must provide for resolution of certain disputes  
   22.     Certain requirements relating to membership of organizations to have no effect  
   24.     Cancellation and variation  

           Division 4 -- Register of workplace agreements etc.  

   28.     Register  
   39.     Confidentiality  
   40.     Section 39 not applicable to public sector agreements  

   PART 3 -- Application to public sector  

   41.     Definition for this Part  
   42.     Act binds Crown  
   43.     Employees in the public sector  
   44.     Employers in the public sector  
   45.     Matters that cannot be the subject of a workplace agreement  
   46.     Agreement to prevail over certain written laws  

   PART 4 -- Keeping of records  

   47.     Keeping of employment records  
   48.     Access to records kept by employer  

   PART 5 -- Disputes, remedies and offences  

           Division 1 -- Enforcement  

   49.     Definitions  
   50.     Actions for breach of agreement etc.  
   51.     Unfair dismissal  
   53.     Representation  
   54.     Disputes procedures to be followed  
   55.     Court bound by arbitrated decision  
   56.     Time limits  
   57.     Orders that can be made  
   58.     Monetary limit on jurisdiction  
   59.     Jurisdiction of other courts  
   60.     Proof of agreement  
   61.     Appeals  
   63.     Enforcement of money orders  

           Division 2 -- Other remedies  

   64.     Arbitrated decisions  
   65.     Injunctions  

           Division 3 -- Offences  

   66.     Definition  
   67.     Offences relating to representation  
   68.     Threats and intimidation  
   69.     Misinformation  
   70.     Dismissal etc. because of refusal to enter into agreement  
   71.     Coercion of employers by commercial pressure  
   72.     Penalties  
   74.     Who may prosecute  

   PART 8 -- General  

   100.    Exclusive jurisdiction for offences  
   101A.   Registration of industrial agents  
   102.    Regulations  
           SCHEDULE 1  
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