Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 232

    A bargaining order in relation to a proposed enterprise agreement:

  (a)   comes into operation on the day on which it is made; and

  (b)   ceases to be in operation at the earliest of the following:

  (i)   if the order is revoked--the time specified in the instrument of revocation;

  (ii)   when the agreement is approved by the FWC;

  (iii)   when a workplace determination that covers the employees that would have been covered by the agreement comes into operation;

  (iv)   when the bargaining representatives for the agreement agree that bargaining has ceased.

Note:   See also section   255A (limitations relating to greenfields agreements).