South Australian Current Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 1994 - SECT 8

8—Jurisdiction to interpret awards and enterprise agreements

        (1)         SAET (constituted as the South Australian Employment Court) has jurisdiction to interpret an award or enterprise agreement.

        (2)         In exercising its interpretative jurisdiction—

            (a)         SAET should have regard to any evidence that is reasonably available to it of what the author of the relevant part of the award or enterprise agreement, and the parties to the award or enterprise agreement, intended it to mean when it was drafted; and

            (b)         if a common intention is ascertainable—give effect to that intention.