New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 330

330 Termination of contract agreement

(1) A contract agreement can be terminated only in accordance with this section.

(2) A contract agreement can be terminated at any time with the approval of all the parties to it, whether during or after its nominal term.

(3) A contract agreement can also be terminated at or after the end of its nominal term by any one of the parties giving at least 3 months' notice of intention to terminate to each other party. The notice may be served before the end of the nominal term.

(3A) In the case of a contract agreement to which a group of carriers is a party, the proposed termination of the agreement by the carriers must be approved in a secret ballot by not less than 65% of the carriers covered by the agreement at the time the ballot is conducted.

(4) Termination of the contract agreement is not effective until the Industrial Registrar has been given written notice of the approval to terminate or of service of the notice of intention to terminate.