1Short title
This Act may be cited as the Road Safety Remuneration (Consequential Amendments and Related Provisions) Act 2012.
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Bill homepage (APH)This Act may be cited as the Road Safety Remuneration (Consequential Amendments and Related Provisions) Act 2012.
This Act commences at the same time as the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012.
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1-Amendments
Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977
After "Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009,", insert "the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012,".
Schedule 2-Application provisions
The Tribunal must not deal with a dispute under Part 4 of the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012 before 1 January 2013, unless the Tribunal is satisfied that exceptional circumstances exist in relation to the dispute.
A person who is entitled to make an application in relation to a dispute under paragraph 40(1)(b) of the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012 may, by application to the Tribunal, request the Tribunal to consider whether exceptional circumstances exist in relation to the dispute.
For the purposes of subsection 41(2) of the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012, the reference in paragraph 41(2)(a) to a former employer dismissing a driver is a reference to a dismissal that happens after the commencement of that Act.
For the purposes of subsection 42(2) of the Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012, the reference in paragraph 42(2)(a) to a former hirer terminating a road transport contract is a reference to a termination that happens after the commencement of that Act.
[Minister's second reading speech made in-
House of Representatives on 23 November 2011
Senate on 20 March 2012]
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