Industrial Relations Act 1996

Unheard proceedings in the Industrial Court are taken, on and from the abolition day, to have been duly commenced in the successor court for the function concerned and may be heard and determined instead by that court.

In relation to part heard proceedings in the Industrial Court, the judicial member (or person acting as a judicial member) constituting the Industrial Court for those proceedings—

is to continue, on and from the abolition day, to hear the matter, and to determine the matter, sitting as the Supreme Court, and

may have regard to any record of the proceedings before the Industrial Court, including a record of any evidence taken in the proceedings before the Industrial Court.

For the purposes of subclauses (1) and (2)—

the court determining the proceedings has and may exercise all the functions that the Industrial Court had immediately before its abolition, and

the provisions of any Act, statutory rule or other law that would have applied to or in respect of the proceedings had the amending Act not been enacted continue to apply.