Industrial Relations Act 2016

The court, commission or registrar (the industrial tribunal) must, before making a decision under this chapter, give the following persons an opportunity to be heard about whether the decision should be made—

a person who applied for the decision or from whose application the decision is proposed to be made;

a person in relation to whom the decision is sought or may be made;

a person who may object to the making of the decision who has objected in the way required under this chapter;

an organisation the decision concerns;

any other person the industrial tribunal considers should be heard or who has a sufficient interest in the making of the decision.

However, subsection (1) does not apply if the industrial tribunal considers the decision may be made without prejudicing the rights of a person or for other sufficient reason.

A regulation may provide for—

objections to the making of a decision under this chapter; or

the way in which the opportunity to be heard must be given.

In this section—

decision includes—

an amendment of a rule of an organisation, other than a correction of a formal or clerical error; and

a referral.