Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity) Rules 2017

I, Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance, make the following rules.

Dated 2 March 2017

Mathias Cormann

Minister for Finance

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

1  Name

  This instrument is the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity) Rules 2017.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

1  After clause 10 of Schedule 1

Insert:

10A  Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity

  For the purposes of the finance law:

 (a) the following combination of bodies is a listed entity:

 (i) the Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman;

 (ii) the Registered Organisations Commission; and

 (b) the listed entity is to be known as the Fair Work Ombudsman and Registered Organisations Commission Entity; and

 (c) the Fair Work Ombudsman is the accountable authority of the listed entity; and

 (d) the following persons are officials of the listed entity:

 (i) the Fair Work Ombudsman;

 (ii) the Fair Work Inspectors;

 (iii) the staff of the Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman referred to in section 697 of the Fair Work Act 2009;

 (iv) persons whose services are made available to the Fair Work Ombudsman under section 698 of the Fair Work Act 2009;

 (v) consultants engaged under section 699 of the Fair Work Act 2009;

 (vi) the Registered Organisations Commissioner;

 (vii) the staff assisting the Registered Organisations Commissioner referred to in subsection 329CA(1) of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009;

 (viii) persons whose services are made available to the Registered Organisations Commissioner under section 329CB of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009;

 (ix) consultants engaged under section 329CC of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009; and

 (e) the purposes of the listed entity include:

 (i) the functions of the Fair Work Ombudsman referred to in section 682 of the Fair Work Act 2009; and

 (ii) the functions of the Fair Work Inspectors under Subdivision D of Division 3 of Part 5‑2 of the Fair Work Act 2009; and

 (iii) the functions of the Registered Organisations Commissioner referred to in section 329AB of the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009.

2  Clause 18 of Schedule 1

Repeal the clause.