Queensland Consolidated Acts

SUGAR INDUSTRY ACT 1999 - SECT 37

37 No final offer arbitration

(1) The parties can not use final offer arbitration or a process substantially the same as final offer arbitration.

(2) The parties to a dispute use
"final offer arbitration" if, at the end of mediation—

(a) each party to the mediation gives a written offer (a
"final offer" ) for resolving all issues to—

(i) the mediator appointed for the mediation; and

(ii) each other party to the dispute; and

(b) the final offer states the basis on which the party is prepared to settle all issues that have not been agreed; and

(c) an arbitrator appointed to resolve the dispute can make a decision only by choosing 1 of the offers; and

(d) if only 1 final offer has been made—the arbitrator may accept the offer as the arbitrator’s decision.