Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01158:reg:2:p4
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C01158
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 2 (pt 4/6)
Character Range: 135328–137939

remove evidence of an employee's identity;
 (b) if the ballot is not conducted by postal voting or by electronic voting, the scrutineer may be present when the protected action ballot agent is ready to conduct the scrutiny of the ballot material.
 (7) However:
 (a) the total number of scrutineers in attendance at a particular time at the scrutiny of the ballot material must not exceed the total number of people who are:
 (i) performing functions and duties as, or on behalf of, the protected action ballot agent; and
 (ii) engaged on the scrutiny of the ballot material at that time; and
 (b) if a person fails to produce the person's instrument of appointment as a scrutineer for inspection by the protected action ballot agent for the ballot, when requested by the agent to do so, the agent may refuse to allow the person to attend or act as a scrutineer.
 (8) At the scrutiny of the ballot material:
 (a) if the scrutineer objects to a decision that a vote is formal or informal, the scrutineer may inform the protected action ballot agent of the objection; and
 (b) if the scrutineer considers that an error has been made in the conduct of the scrutiny, the scrutineer may inform the protected action ballot agent of the scrutineer's opinion.

Division 9—Payments relating to periods of industrial action

3.21  Payments relating to partial work bans—working out proportion of reduction of employee's payments
  For subsection 471(3) of the Act, the proportion mentioned in paragraph 471(2)(a) of the Act is worked out for an employee or a class of employees by carrying out the following steps.

Step 1  Identify the work that an employee or a class of employees is failing or refusing to perform, or is proposing to fail or refuse to perform.
Step 2  Estimate the usual time that the employee or the class of employees would spend performing the work during a day.
Step 3  Work out the time estimated in Step 2 as a percentage of an employee's usual hours of work for a day.
        The solution is the proportion by which the employee's payment will be reduced for a day.

3.22  Payments relating to partial work bans—form of partial work ban notice
  For paragraph 471(6)(a) of the Act, a notice given under paragraph 471(1)(c) or (4)(c) of the Act about the reduction of an employee's payments due to a partial work ban must be in a legible form and in English.

3.23  Payments relating to partial work bans—content of partial work ban notice
 (1) For paragraph 471(6)(b) of the Act, a notice about a partial work ban given to an employee under paragraph 471(1)(c) or (4)(c) of the Act must:
 (a)