Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) At any meeting
with the conciliation officer or conciliation conference, a party to the
dispute may appear in person or may be represented by —
(a) a
legal practitioner; or
(b) a
registered agent; or
(c) if
the party is a body corporate, a director, secretary, or other officer of the
body corporate; or
(d) if
the party is a public sector body as defined in the Public Sector Management
Act 1994 section 3(1), a public sector employee authorised by the party to
represent the party.
(2) The conciliation
officer may refuse to permit an employer or an insurer to be represented by a
legal practitioner or registered agent if a party who is a worker is not
represented by a legal practitioner or registered agent.
(3) A prohibited
person cannot represent a party.
[(4) deleted]
(5) The conciliation
officer may refuse to permit a party to be represented by an agent if of the
opinion that the agent does not have sufficient authority to make binding
decisions on behalf of the party.
(6) The regulations or
the conciliation rules may prevent specified persons, or persons of a
specified class, from representing a party.
[Section 182S inserted: No. 31 of 2011 s. 6;
amended: No. 9 of 2022 s. 413.]