Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2015

Chapter 2

Registered employment agreements

Definitions (Chapter 2)

6. In this Chapter—

“employment agreement” means an agreement relating to the remuneration or the conditions of employment of workers of any class, type or group made between a trade union or trade unions of workers and one or more than one employer or a trade union of employers, that is binding only on the parties to the agreement in respect of the workers of that class, type or group;

“enactment” has the same meaning as it has in the Interpretation Act 2005 ;

“parties to the agreement” means—

(a) in the case of the workers, the trade union or trade unions specified in the agreement, and

(b) in the case of the employers, the employer, employers or trade union of employers specified in the agreement;

“Register of Employment Agreements” has the meaning assigned to it by section 7 ;

“registered employment agreement” means an employment agreement for the time being registered in the Register of Employment Agreements;

“trade dispute” has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 1946.