Section 276 — Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

(1) A workplace determination operates from the day on which it is made.

(2) A workplace determination ceases to operate on the earlier of the following days:

(a) the day on which a termination of the determination comes into operation under section 224 or 227 as applied to the determination by section 279 (which deals with the application of this Act to workplace determinations);

(b) the day on which subsection 278(1) or (2) first has the effect that there is no employee to whom the determination applies.

Note: Subsections 278(1) and (2) deal with when a workplace determination ceases to apply to an employee.

(3) A workplace determination that has ceased to operate can never operate again.

Related sections

• s 273 — Mandatory terms of workplace determinations
• s 274 — Agreed terms for workplace determinations
• s 275 — Factors the FWC must take into account in deciding terms of a workplace determination
• s 277 — Employers, employees and employee organisations covered by a workplace determination
• s 278 — Interaction of a workplace determination with enterprise agreements etc.
• s 279 — Act applies to a workplace determination as if it were an enterprise agreement

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