Section 216AC — Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

For the purposes of paragraph 216AB(1)(a), the FWC is to determine whether it is satisfied that it would have been required to make the supported bargaining authorisation in accordance with sections 243 and 243A, modified as follows:

(a) as if paragraph 243(1)(a), subparagraph 243(1)(b)(iii) and paragraphs 243(1)(c) and (2A)(a) were omitted;

(b) as if references to the employers included the employer who made the application under section 216AA for approval of the variation;

(c) as if references to employees who will be covered by the agreement, or an employee, were references to the affected employees or an affected employee;

(d) as if all of the words in paragraph 243(2A)(b) were replaced with the words “the affected employees are, at the time the application for approval of the variation is being considered, employees in an industry, occupation or sector declared by the Minister under subsection (2B)”.

Related sections

• s 216AAA — Terms of variation must be explained to employees
• s 216AA — Application for the FWC’s approval of a variation of a supported bargaining agreement to add employer and employees
• s 216AB — When the FWC must approve a variation of a supported bargaining agreement to add employer and employees
• s 216AD — Determining whether a variation of a supported bargaining agreement to add employer and employees has been genuinely agreed to by affected employees
• s 216AE — When the FWC may refuse to approve a variation of a supported bargaining agreement to add employer and employees
• s 216AF — When variation comes into operation

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