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Fair Work Amendment Regulation 2012 (No. 2)

FRLI ID: F2012L01708
Introduced into the House of Representatives and the Senate on 21 August 2012
Portfolio: Employment and Workplace Relations

Committee view

1.1        The committee thanks the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations for confirming that the regulation engages and promotes the right to work and rights in work. The committee makes no further comment on this regulation.

Purpose of the instrument

2.1        The purpose of the instrument is to amend the Fair Work Regulations 2009 consequential on the commencement of the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) Act 2012 and associated regulations and the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2012. The effect of the regulation is to ensure that the Fair Work Act 2009 continues to apply to certain ships engaged in coastal trading in Australia's territorial sea, in the EEZ and in the waters above the continental shelf.

2.2        The Minister's response is at Appendix 1.

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