Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 254

Application of this section

  (1)   This section applies if a provision of this Part permits an application to be made by a bargaining representative of an employer that will be covered by a proposed enterprise agreement.

Persons who may make applications

  (2)   If the agreement will cover more than one employer, the application may be made by:

  (a)   in the case of a proposed enterprise agreement in relation to which a single interest employer authorisation is in operation--the person (if any) specified in the authorisation as the person who may make applications under this Act; or

  (b)   in any case--a bargaining representative of an employer that will be covered by the agreement, on behalf of one or more other such bargaining representatives, if those other bargaining representatives have agreed to the application being made on their behalf.