Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 242

242 Certificate as to requested representation

(1) An employee organisation may apply to the registrar for a certificate stating that an employee has asked the organisation, under section 171 , to represent the employee in negotiating with the employer under this chapter.

(2) An employer may apply to the registrar for a certificate stating that the employer need not negotiate with an employee organisation under this chapter because of a circumstance mentioned in section 171 (5) .

(3) A certificate must identify the organisation, the employer and any proposed bargaining instrument.

(4) A certificate must not identify any of the employees concerned.

(5) The certificate is, for all purposes of this Act, evidence of the matters stated in it.