{"id":"F2012L01606","name":"Fair Work (State Declarations - employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2012 (No. 1)","slug":"fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2012-no-1","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":89577,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2012L01606-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Fair Work (State Declarations - employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2012 (No. 1)","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nFair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2012 (No.1)\n\nFair Work Act 2009\n\nI, WILLIAM RICHARD SHORTEN, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, make this Endorsement under paragraph 14 (4) (a) of the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\nDated 23 July 2012\n\nWilliam Richard Shorten\n\nMinister for Employment and Workplace Relations\n\nContents\n\n1 Name of Endorsement 2\n\n2 Commencement 2\n\n3 Definition 2\n\n4 Endorsement of State Declarations 2\n\nSchedule 1 Employer declared by or under a law of a State not to be a national system employer 3\n\nPart 1 Employers declared by or under a law of South Australia not to be a national system employer 3\n\n1 Name of Endorsement\n\nThis Endorsement is the Fair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2012 (No.1).\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Endorsement commences on 1 August 2012.\n\n3 Definition\n\nIn this Endorsement:\n\n> Act means the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\n4 Endorsement of State Declarations\n\n(1) For paragraph 14 (4) (a) of the Act, a declaration, by or under a law of a State mentioned in an item in Schedule 1 that an employer mentioned in that item is not to be a national system employer for the purposes of the Act, is endorsed.\n\n(2) The endorsement of a declaration in relation to an employer mentioned in an item in Schedule 1 takes effect from the date mentioned in that item.\n\nSchedule 1 Employer declared by or under a law of a State not to be a national system employer\n\n(section 4)\n\nPart 1 Employer declared by or under a law of South Australia not to be a national system employer\n\n| Item | Law of South Australia         | Employer                          | Date of effect of endorsement |\n| ---- | ------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ----------------------------- |\n| 1    | Local Government Act 1999 (SA) | Adelaide Central Market Authority | 1 August 2012                 |\n|      |                                |                                   |                               |\n\n> Note\n\n> Note: 1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://www.frli.gov.au","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the narrow, technical function it was designed for: endorsing a specific state declaration to exclude a named employer from the national workplace relations system. The scope remains tightly confined to the single employer listed in Schedule 1."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (4 sections plus a single-item schedule)","Only 1 defined term ('Act')","Single cross-reference to Fair Work Act 2009, section 14(4)(a)","No conditional logic or nested exceptions","Straightforward tabular format in Schedule 1 with only one entry","Mechanical operation: ministerial endorsement of a single state declaration"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument gives federal endorsement to a South Australian law removing the Adelaide Central Market Authority from Australia’s national workplace relations system. As a result the Authority and its employees move from the Fair Work Act to South Australian industrial laws, shifting how workplace rights and disputes are handled. It matters because ministerial endorsement is required for states to opt specific employers out of the national system."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. 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Mechanically, it changes which industrial system (federal versus state) applies to that employer, so it affects which workplace laws, regulators and dispute processes govern the employer and its workers."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2012-no-1","history":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2012-no-1/history","analysis":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2012-no-1/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2012-no-1/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2012-no-1/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2012-no-1/documents"}}