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WORKPLACE RELATIONS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1997 NO. 246

Statutory Rules 1997 No. 246

(Issued by the authority of the Minister for Workplace Relations and Small Business)

Workplace Relations Act 1996

Workplace Relations Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 141(2) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 allows the Australian Industrial Relations Commission to declare an award to be a common rule for the whole, or a specified class of, public sector employment. Subsection 141(3) provides that the declaration of a common rule under subsection (2) does not have any effect in relation to a prescribed class of public sector employment,. Regulation 20 of the Workplace Relations, Regulations already prescribes a number of bodies for this purpose. Regulation 20(a) provides that employment by, or service in the service of a Commonwealth authority referred to in Part 1 of Schedule 4 of the regulations is prescribed for the purposes of subsection, 141(3) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996.

This regulation provides that ACTEW Corporation Limited is. a prescribed, authority under Part 1 of Schedule 4 of the Workplace Relations Regulations for the purposes of subsection 141(3) of the Workplace Relations Act 1996.

This regulation commences on the date of gazettal.