Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 192

192 Entities that may be heard on application

(1) An employee organisation is entitled to be heard on a part 5 application if the organisation will be a party to the proposed bargaining instrument.

(2) As soon as practicable after the part 5 application is made, the commission must notify each employee organisation mentioned in subsection (1) that—

(a) the application has been made; and

(b) the organisation is entitled to be heard on the application.

(3) An employee organisation that will not be a party to the proposed bargaining instrument may be heard on the part 5 application only by leave of the commission.

(4) The commission may give leave to an employee organisation mentioned in subsection (3) only if the commission is satisfied there is a reasonable possibility that, if leave is not given, the commission will not be informed of an issue relevant to the commission’s decision to grant, or refuse to grant, the application.

(5) This section does not affect another right of an employee organisation, or any other person, to be heard on, or to intervene in, an application.