Fair Work (State Referral and Consequential and Other Amendments) Act 2009 (54 of 2009)

Schedule 15   Parliamentary Service

Part 1   Consequential amendments

Parliamentary Service Act 1999

18   Subsection 23(5)

Repeal the subsection, substitute:

(5) If a relevant industrial instrument contains procedures to be followed when reducing the classification, then a reduction is of no effect unless those procedures are followed.

(6) In this section:

industrial instrument means:

(a) a modern award; or

(b) an enterprise agreement; or

(c) a workplace determination; or

(d) a WR Act transitional instrument; or

(e) a transitional APCS.

transitional APCS has the meaning given by Schedule 2 to the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009.

workplace determination has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009.