Fair Work Amendment (Minor and Technical Measures No. 2) Regulations 2024

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated   21 November 2024

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Murray Watt

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Fair Work Regulations 2009

1  Name

  This instrument is the Fair Work Amendment (Minor and Technical Measures No. 2) Regulations 2024.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Fair Work Act 2009.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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

Fair Work Regulations 2009

1  Regulation 1.05

Repeal the regulation, substitute:

1.05  Meaning of eligible State or Territory court

  For the purposes of paragraph (d) of the definition of eligible State or Territory court in section 12 of the Act, the following courts are prescribed:

 (a) the Industrial Court of New South Wales;

 (b) the South Australian Employment Court.

2  Paragraph 3.07(8)(b)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (b) either:

 (i) at the time the application is discontinued, the application has not yet been listed for a conciliation, conference or hearing; or

 (ii) if the application has, at or before that time, been listed for a conciliation, conference or hearing, on a specified date or dates—the discontinuance occurs at least 2 days before that date or the earlier of those dates.