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Western Australia Industrial Relations (Prohibition of Bargaining Services Fees) Amendment Bill 2007 CONTENTS Part 1 -- Preliminary 1. Short title 2 2. Commencement 2 Part 2 -- Amendments to Industrial Relations Act 1979 3. The Act amended 3 4. Section 96A amended 3 5. Section 96A amended 3 6. Section 96BA inserted 4 96BA. Provision requiring or permitting payment of bargaining services fee to have no effect 4 221--1 page i Western Australia LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (Introduced by Mr Cowper, MLA) Industrial Relations (Prohibition of Bargaining Services Fees) Amendment Bill 2007 A Bill for An Act to amend the Industrial Relations Act to prohibit an employment agreement containing a bargaining service fee. The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows: page 1 Industrial Relations (Prohibition of Bargaining Services Fees) Amendment Bill 2007 Part 1 Preliminary s. 1 Part 1 -- Preliminary 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Industrial Relations (Prohibition of Bargaining Services Fees) Amendment Act 2007. 5 2. Commencement This Act comes into operation on a day fixed by proclamation. page 2 Industrial Relations (Prohibition of Bargaining Services Fees) Amendment Bill 2007 Amendments to Industrial Relations Act 1979 Part 2 s. 3 Part 2 -- Amendments to Industrial Relations Act 1979 3. The Act amended The amendments in this Part are to the Industrial Relations Act 1979. 5 4. Section 96A amended Section 96A is amended by inserting the following definition in the appropriate alphabetical position -- " "bargaining services" means services provided by (or 10 on behalf of) an organisation in relation to an award, industrial agreement or order under this Act, or any arrangement between persons relating to employment, including the negotiation, making, operation, extension, variation or termination of 15 the award, industrial agreement or order under this Act or arrangement between persons relating to employment; ". 5. Section 96A amended 20 Section 96A is amended by inserting the following definition in the appropriate alphabetical position -- " "bargaining services fee" means a fee, howsoever described, payable to an organisation (or to 25 someone else in lieu of an organisation) wholly or partly for the provision, or purported provision, of bargaining services, but does not include membership dues. ". page 3 Industrial Relations (Prohibition of Bargaining Services Fees) Amendment Bill 2007 Part 2 Amendments to Industrial Relations Act 1979 s. 6 6. Section 96BA inserted After section 96B the following section is inserted -- " 96BA. Provision requiring or permitting payment of 5 bargaining services fee to have no effect (1) An award, industrial agreement or order under this Act, or any arrangement between persons relating to employment must not require or permit payment of a bargaining services fee. 10 (2) The prohibition in subsection (1) extends to awards, industrial agreements, orders and arrangements that are in force at the commencement of section 28 of the Industrial Relations Amendment Act 1993. (3) A provision of any award, industrial agreement or 15 order under this Act or any arrangement between persons relating to employment that is contrary to this section is of no effect. ". 20
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