Workplace Relations Act 2015
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Work programme | ||
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22. (1) The Board shall— | ||
(a) after consultation with the Director General, and | ||
(b) not later than one month before the 1st day of January each year, | ||
prepare and submit to the Minister a plan (in this section referred to as a “work programme”) of the work that the Commission intends to carry out in the year to which the plan relates. | ||
(2) The Minister may issue directions to the Board in relation to the preparation of a work programme. | ||
(3) The Minister may— | ||
(a) upon the recommendation of the Director General, or | ||
(b) for the purpose of improving workplace relations generally or in workplaces of a particular class or classes, | ||
direct the Board to prepare and submit to him or her a revised work programme. | ||
(4) The Minister shall, as soon as practicable after a work programme or revised work programme has been submitted to him or her under subsection (1), or pursuant to a direction under subsection (3) or this subsection— | ||
(a) approve the work programme or revised work programme, | ||
(b) approve the work programme or revised work programme subject to such modifications as he or she may specify, or | ||
(c) refuse to approve the work programme or revised work programme and, by direction in writing, require the Board to prepare and submit a revised work programme to the Minister by such date as may be specified in the direction. | ||
(5) The Board shall comply with a direction under this section by such date as may be specified in the direction. | ||
(6) Each work programme (other than the work programme first prepared and submitted after the commencement of this section) shall contain a review of the implementation and effectiveness of the work programme in respect of the year immediately preceding the first-mentioned work programme. | ||
(7) The Board shall, in the preparation of a work programme, have regard to— | ||
(a) the strategy statement approved under section 21 of the Commission applicable in respect of the year to which the work programme relates, and | ||
(b) such other matters (if any) as are specified in a direction under subsection (2). |