Western Australian Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

WORKPLACE AGREEMENTS ACT 1993

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 -- Preliminary  

   1.      Short title
            
   2.      Commencement
            
   3.      Interpretation
            
   4.      Act overrides Industrial Relations Act 1979

   PART 1A -- Phasing out and expiry of Act  

   4A.     Expiry of Act
            
   4B.     Further workplace agreements cannot be made
            
   4C.     Limit on duration of agreements registered on or after 22 March 2001
            
   4D.     Limit on duration of arrangements under repealed section 19(4)(b)
            
   4E.     Termination of unregistered individual workplace agreements
            
   4F.     Limit on duration of agreements not covered by section 4C or 4E
            
           4G. Termination of effect of agreement under repealed section 23(1)
            
           4H. Employment conditions if workplace agreement or arrangement terminated or employee ceases to be a party
            
   4I.     Rights, obligations and proceedings not affected by termination of agreement or arrangement
            
   4J.     This Part to prevail

   PART 2 -- Workplace agreements

           Division 1 -- Purpose and effect of workplace agreements  

   5.      Workplace agreements
            
   6.      Effect of workplace agreement
            
   7.      Effect of workplace agreement on accrued entitlements
            
   8.      Effect of addition of employee as party

           Division 2 -- Making of workplace agreements  

   9.      Making of collective workplace agreement
            
   10.     Making of individual workplace agreements
            
   12.     Persons bound by workplace agreement
            
   13.     Disposition etc. of business
            
   14.     Termination of contract of employment
            
   15.     Bargaining agents

           Division 3 -- Contents and formalities  

   17.     Minimum conditions of employment
            
   18.     Implied provision as to unfair dismissal
            
   21.     Agreement must provide for resolution of certain disputes
            
   22.     Certain requirements relating to membership of organizations to have no effect
            
   24.     Cancellation and variation

           Division 4 -- Register of workplace agreements etc.  

   28.     Register
            
   39.     Confidentiality
            
   40.     Section 39 not applicable to public sector agreements

   PART 3 -- Application to public sector  

   41.     Definition for this Part
            
   42.     Act binds Crown
            
   43.     Employees in the public sector
            
   44.     Employers in the public sector
            
   45.     Matters that cannot be the subject of a workplace agreement
            
   46.     Agreement to prevail over certain written laws

   PART 4 -- Keeping of records  

   47.     Keeping of employment records
            
   48.     Access to records kept by employer

   PART 5 -- Disputes, remedies and offences

           Division 1 -- Enforcement  

   49.     Definitions
            
   50.     Actions for breach of agreement etc.
            
   51.     Unfair dismissal
            
   53.     Representation
            
   54.     Disputes procedures to be followed
            
   55.     Court bound by arbitrated decision
            
   56.     Time limits
            
   57.     Orders that can be made
            
   58.     Monetary limit on jurisdiction
            
   59.     Jurisdiction of other courts
            
   60.     Proof of agreement
            
   61.     Appeals
            
   63.     Enforcement of money orders

           Division 2 -- Other remedies  

   64.     Arbitrated decisions
            
   65.     Injunctions

           Division 3 -- Offences  

   66.     Definition
            
   67.     Offences relating to representation
            
   68.     Threats and intimidation
            
   69.     Misinformation
            
   70.     Dismissal etc. because of refusal to enter into agreement
            
   71.     Coercion of employers by commercial pressure
            
   72.     Penalties
            
   74.     Who may prosecute

   PART 8 -- General  

   100.    Exclusive jurisdiction for offences
            
   101A.   Registration of industrial agents
            
   102.    Regulations
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