Industrial Relations Act 1996

A digital labour platform means an online-enabled application, website or system operated to arrange, allocate or facilitate the provision of transport services by persons, where—

the operator of the application, website or system—

engages persons directly or indirectly through or by means of the application, website or system, or

acts as an intermediary for or on behalf of at least 2 distinct but interdependent sets of users who interact with the persons or the operator via the application, website or system, and

one or more of the following processes payments referable to the work performed by the independent contractors—

the operator of the application, website or system,

an associated entity, within the meaning of the Corporations Act 2001 of the Commonwealth, section 50AAA, of the operator,

a person contracted, whether directly or through one or more interposed entities, by the operator or an associated entity of the operator to process the payments.

Despite subsection (1), a digital labour platform—

includes an online-enabled application, website or system prescribed by the regulations for this section, but

does not include an online-enabled application, website or system prescribed by the regulations for this section.

For this section—

an online-enabled application, website or system may be specified by name or by inclusion in a specified class or specified classes, and

an online-enabled application, website or system may be specified for all forms of digital platform work or for specified forms of digital platform work.