{"id":"F2015L02090","name":"Fair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2015 (No. 3)","slug":"fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2015-no-3","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":93848,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2015L02090-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 2015 (No. 3)","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nFair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement 2015 (No. 3)\n\nFair Work Act 2009\n\nI, MICHAELIA CASH, Minister for Employment, make this Endorsement under paragraph 14 (4) (a) of the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\nDated 11 December 2015\n\nMichaelia Cash\n\nMinister for Employment\n\nContents\n\n1 Name of Endorsement 2\n\n2 Commencement 2\n\n3 Definition 2\n\n4 Endorsement of State Declaration 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 Employer 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 2015 (No. 3).\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Endorsement commences on 21 December 2015.\n\n3 Definition\n\nIn this Endorsement:\n\n> Act means the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\n4 Endorsement of State Declaration\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 commencement of this instrument.\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) | Council Solutions Regional Authority | 21 December 2015              |\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 one named employer from the national workplace relations system. There is no evidence of scope creep."},"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 exceptions","Straightforward tabular format in Schedule 1 with only one entry","Mechanical operation: Minister endorses a pre-existing State declaration"],"plain_english_summary":"This 2015 instrument, made by the Minister for Employment, formally endorses a South Australian law that removes Council Solutions Regional Authority from the federal Fair Work Act, making that employer a “non‑national system” employer.\n\nAs a result, the Authority’s employees fall under South Australian industrial law rather than federal workplace law—changing which protections and rules (wages, dismissal rights, industrial action) apply and illustrating federal–state allocation of regulatory responsibility."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This endorsement does not expand or alter the underlying State declaration; it simply gives the State declaration federal effect under the Fair Work Act from the instrument’s commencement (section 4(1)–(2); Schedule 1, item 1). It neither adds employers nor changes the legal criteria used by the State to make the original declaration."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, single-purpose instrument: endorses one state declaration for one named employer (Schedule 1, Part 1).","Statutory cross‑reference: operation depends on paragraph 14(4)(a) of the Fair Work Act — the endorsement mechanism is a legal formality (section 4).","Administrative clarity: fixed commencement date and automatic effect from this instrument’s start (section 2; section 4(2)).","Low discretion: Minister’s role is to make the endorsement under specified Act authority; no open-ended powers or regulatory rule‑making.","Limited operational impact: does not create new rights or obligations itself, it only recognises a State law declaration (Schedule 1).","Compliance scope confined to the named employer — minimal compliance burden across the wider economy."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument formally endorses a South Australian declaration that Council Solutions Regional Authority is not a national system employer under the Fair Work Act, giving that state determination federal effect from 21 December 2015. It affects that employer and its workforce by leaving them outside the Commonwealth’s national workplace relations system and subject to the relevant State law instead."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2015-no-3","history":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2015-no-3/history","analysis":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2015-no-3/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2015-no-3/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2015-no-3/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-2015-no-3/documents"}}