Application for appointment of arbitrator
89 Application for appointment of arbitrator
(cf PH Act s 29L)
The Minister or the Association may apply (either jointly or individually) to the relevant Minister for the appointment of an arbitrator to determine—
the terms and conditions of work, the amounts or rates of remuneration and the bases on which those amounts or rates are applicable, in respect of medical services provided by visiting medical officers under fee-for-service contracts or sessional contracts (or both), and
the date or dates (not being a date or dates earlier than the date of the determination) on and from which any determination made under paragraph (a) is to have effect.
Note.
The Dictionary defines relevant Minister to mean the Minister administering the Industrial Relations Act 1996 for the time being.
An application is to be in the form approved by the relevant Minister from time to time.
An application that seeks to obtain a determination under this Part—
in relation to a class of service contracts for which there is a standard service contract, and
that, if made, would be at variance with a condition approved under section 87,
cannot be made before the expiry of such period as may have been specified in the order under section 87 by force of which the condition concerned was last included in the standard service contract.
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