New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 399

399 Authority to prosecute

(1) Proceedings for an offence against this Act or the regulations may be instituted only--

(a) by the Minister or by a person with the written consent of the Minister, or

(b) by an inspector, or

(c) by a person, or a person of a class, prescribed by the regulations.

(2) In any such proceedings, a consent to institute the proceedings, purporting to have been signed by a person authorised to give a consent under this section is evidence of that consent without proof of the signature or authority of the person.

(3) Any such proceedings instituted by an officer of a Government Department may be prosecuted on his or her behalf by any officer of that Department.