Western Australian Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1979 - SECT 112

112 .         Invalidity of certain provisions in organisation rules

        (1)         Where the rules of an organisation contain a provision that authorises or purports to authorise the imposition of a penalty by way of a fine or levy or otherwise on an employee who complies with his contract of service the provision is invalid.

        (2)         An organisation or any person shall not enforce or attempt to enforce a provision that is invalid by virtue of subsection (1).

        (3)         Where any money is received in contravention of subsection (2) then, notwithstanding any proceedings under this Act in respect of the contravention, the money may be recovered in an industrial magistrate’s court — 

            (a)         by the person by whom or on whose behalf the money was paid; or

            (b)         by an industrial inspector on behalf of that person,

                as a debt due to that person.

        [Section 112 amended by No. 94 of 1984 s. 65 and 66; No. 1 of 1995 s. 53; No. 79 of 1995 s. 28.]