Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 789HA

    This Division relies on the Commonwealth's legislative powers under paragraph   51(xxix) (external affairs) of the Constitution as it relates to giving effect to Australia's obligations under:

  (a)   the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women done at New York on 18   December 1979 ([1983] ATS 9); and

  (b)   article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights done at New York on 16   December 1966 ([1980] ATS 23); and

  (c)   paragraph   2 of article 2, and articles 6 and 7, of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights done at New York on 16   December 1966 ([1976] ATS 5).

Note:   The Conventions and the Covenant could in 2022 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website   (http://www.austlii.edu.au).