{"id":"F2024L00143","name":"Fair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement (No. 1) 2024","slug":"fair-work-state-declarations-employer-not-to-be-national-system-employer-endorsement-no-1-2024","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442270,"registerId":"F2024L00143-fast-fetch-1775957326216","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Fair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement (No. 1) 2024","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n \n\n ![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement (No. 1) 2024\n\nFair Work Act 2009\n\nI, Tony Burke, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, make this Endorsement under paragraph 14(4)(a) of the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\nDated          1 February 2024\n\n \n\nTony Burke\n\nMinister for Employment and Workplace Relations\n\n \n\nContents\n\n1  Name of Endorsement\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Definition\n\n4 Endorsement of State Declaration\n\nSchedule 1 Employer declared by or under a law of New South Wales not to be a national system employer\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n1  Name of Endorsement\n\n  This Endorsement is the Fair Work (State Declarations — employer not to be national system employer) Endorsement (No. 1) 2024.\n\n2 Commencement\n\n  This Endorsement commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.\n\n3 Definition\n\n  In this Endorsement:\n\nAct means the Fair Work Act 2009.\n\n4 Endorsement of State Declaration\n\n  For paragraph 14(4)(a) of the Act, a declaration as in force on 19 January 2024 under the Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW) that an employer mentioned in Schedule 1 to this instrument is not to be a national system employer for the purposes of the Act, is endorsed.\n\n \n\n \n\nSchedule 1 Employer declared by or under a law of New South Wales not to be a national system employer\n\n(section 9A(1))\n\nEmployer\n\nMurray Art Museum Albury Limited\n\nNote\n\n1. All legislative instruments and compilations are registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments kept under the Legislative Instruments Act 2003. See http://legislation.gov.au\n\n \n","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 system. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond the original legislative purpose of section 14(4)(a) of the Fair Work Act 2009."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (only 4 substantive sections plus a schedule)","Single defined term ('Act')","No nested exceptions or conditional logic","Straightforward single-purpose operation: endorsing one pre-existing state declaration","Only one employer listed in Schedule 1","Minimal cross-referencing (only references to Fair Work Act 2009, section 14(4)(a) and section 9A(1))"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument approves a New South Wales law that removes Murray Art Museum Albury Limited from Australia’s national workplace relations system under the Fair Work Act 2009. As a result, the museum and its employees will be regulated by NSW state industrial law (Industrial Relations Act 1996) instead of federal law, changing which rules on pay, dismissal and union rights apply."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not expand or alter the set of employers covered beyond endorsing the NSW declaration in force on 19 January 2024. It is a formal endorsement (section 4) with commencement tied to registration (section 2) and applies only to the named employer in Schedule 1."},"complexity_factors":["Very narrow, single-entity scope (Schedule 1)","Simple procedural operation: endorsement of an existing state declaration rather than new substantive rules (section 4)","Inter-jurisdictional legal cross‑reference to the Fair Work Act 2009 and the Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW) (section 4)","Temporal specificity: endorses declaration as in force on a particular date (19 January 2024) which limits dynamic effect (section 4)","Standard commencement and registration formalities (section 2)"],"plain_english_summary":"This Endorsement formally recognises a New South Wales declaration that Murray Art Museum Albury Limited is not a national system employer for the Fair Work Act. It takes effect the day after registration (sections 2, 4; Schedule 1).\n\nThat changes which industrial laws and agencies apply to that employer and its workers, shifting compliance responsibility from the national system to the NSW system; the instrument endorses the state decision rather than creating new obligations (section 4)."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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