Workplace Relations Amendment (Tallies) Act 2001 (Cth)

Workplace Relations Amendment (Tallies) Act 2001 No. 7, 2001 Workplace Relations Amendment (Tallies) Act 2001 No. 7, 2001 An Act to amend the Workplace Relations Act 1996 in relation to tallies, and for related purposes Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement............................... 3 Schedule(s).................................. Schedule 1—Tallies Workplace Relations Act 1996 Workplace Relations Amendment (Tallies) Act 2001 No. 7, 2001 An Act to amend the Workplace Relations Act 1996 in relation to tallies, and for related purposes [Assented to 22 March 2001] The Parliament of Australia enacts: 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Workplace Relations Amendment (Tallies) Act 2001. 2 Commencement (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent. (2) Item 1 of Schedule 1 commences 12 months after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent. 3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms. Schedule 1—Tallies Workplace Relations Act 1996 1 Paragraph 89A(2)(d) Omit ", tallies". 2 At the beginning of paragraph 89A(2)(d) Insert "incentive-based payments (other than tallies in the meat industry),". 3 After section 89A Insert: 89B Review of certain awards (1) Within 12 months after this section commences, the Commission must review all awards containing clauses that provide for, or regulate, tallies in the meat industry and, after considering appropriate alternatives, may vary an award to remove such clauses. (2) Any clause that provides for, or regulates, tallies in the meat industry that is contained in an award ceases to have effect at the end of 12 months after this section commences. (3) After the end of the period of time mentioned in subsection (2), the Commission may vary any award to remove any clauses that have ceased to have effect because of subsection (2). (4) If the Commission varies an award under subsection (1) or (3), it must include in the award provisions that ensure that overall entitlements to pay provided by the award are not reduced by that variation, unless the Commission considers that it would be in the public interest not to include such provisions. [Minister's second reading speech made in— (134/00) House of Representatives on 29 June 2000 Senate on 11 October 2000]