Terms that must not be included in a minimum standards order
(1) A minimum standards order must not include terms about any of the following matters: (a) overtime rates; (b) rostering arrangements; (c) matters that are primarily of a commercial nature that do not affect the terms and conditions of engagement of regulated workers covered by the minimum standards order; (d) a term that would change the form of the engagement or the status of regulated workers covered by the minimum standards order including, but not limited to, a term that deems a regulated worker to be an employee; (e) a matter relating to work health and safety that is otherwise comprehensively dealt with by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; (f) a matter prescribed by the regulations, or belonging to a class of matter prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph. (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(e): (a) the regulations may specify that a particular matter, or a matter included in a class of matters, is, or is not, dealt with comprehensively by a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory; and (b) the regulations may prescribe one or more laws of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory to which that paragraph does, or does not, not apply.
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