Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

FAIR WORK REGULATIONS 2009 - REG 5.01B

    For clause   32 of Schedule   3 of the Act, if a person appointed as a Vice President of the FWC under section   626 of the Act was, under item   1 of Schedule   18 to the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 , taken to be a Deputy President of FWA:

  (a)   the person has the same rank, status and precedence as a Judge of the Federal Court; and

  (b)   to avoid doubt, if the Judges' Pension Act 1968 applies to the person, that Act continues to apply to the person; and

  (c)   if the salary payable to the person under section   79 of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 is more than the salary that would be payable to the person as Vice President under section   637 of the Act--the person is entitled to receive the amount that was payable to the person under section   79 of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 immediately prior to the appointment; and

  (d)   section   639 of the Act does not apply to the person.