Section 473 — Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)

(1) An employee must not:

(a) accept a payment from an employer if the employer would contravene section 470 by making the payment; or

(b) ask the employer to make such a payment.

Note 1: This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).

Note 2: Acts of coercion, or misrepresentations, relating to such payments may also contravene section 348 or 349.

(2) An employee organisation, or an officer or member of an employee organisation, must not ask an employer to make a payment to an employee if the employer would contravene section 470 by making the payment.

Note 1: This subsection is a civil remedy provision (see Part 4‑1).

Note 2: Acts of coercion, or misrepresentations, relating to such payments may also contravene section 348 or 349.

Related sections

• s 470 — Payments not to be made relating to certain periods of industrial action
• s 471 — Payments relating to partial work bans
• s 472 — Orders by the FWC relating to certain partial work bans
• s 474 — Payments not to be made relating to certain periods of industrial action
• s 475 — Accepting or seeking payments relating to periods of industrial action
• s 476 — Other responses to industrial action unaffected

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