{"id":"F2020L00079","name":"Public Service (Terms and Conditions of Employment) (Meat Inspectors) Determination 2020","slug":"public-service-terms-and-conditions-of-employment-meat-inspectors-determination-2020","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":440362,"registerId":"F2020L00079-fast-fetch-1775956020358","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Public Service (Terms and Conditions of Employment) (Meat Inspectors) Determination 2020","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nPublic Service (Terms and Conditions of Employment) (Meat Inspectors) Determination 2020\n\nI, Greg Hunt, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Cabinet, make the following determination.\n\nDated 30 January 2020\n\nGreg Hunt\n\nMinister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service and Cabinet\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Definitions\n\n5 Application of this instrument to APS employees\n\n6 When this instrument ceases to apply to APS employees\n\n7 Terms and conditions of employment\n\n8 Procedure for dealing with disputes\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Public Service (Terms and Conditions of Employment) (Meat Inspectors) Determination 2020.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument 1 February 2020. 1 February 2020\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under subsection 24(3) of the Public Service Act 1999.\n\n4  Definitions\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Public Service Act 1999.\n\nDEE Agreement means the Department of the Environment and Energy Enterprise Agreement 2016–2019.\n\nDepartment of Agriculture, Water and the Environment means the Department of that name referred to in the Administrative Arrangements Order made on 5 December 2019.\n\nMeat Inspection Agreement means the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources Meat Inspection Enterprise Agreement 2019‑22, as in force immediately before the commencement of this instrument.\n\nNote: The Meat Inspection Agreement could in 2020 be viewed on the Fair Work Commission’s website (https://www.fwc.gov.au).\n\n5  Application of this instrument to APS employees\n\n  This instrument applies to an APS employee in the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment whose classification under the Classification Rules is one of the following:\n\n (a) APS Meat Inspector 1;\n\n (b) APS Meat Inspector 2;\n\n (c) APS Meat Inspector 3;\n\n (d) APS Meat Inspector 4.\n\n6  When this instrument ceases to apply to APS employees\n\n  This instrument ceases to apply to an APS employee if:\n\n (a) an enterprise agreement (other than the DEE Agreement) starts to apply to the employee (for the purposes of the Fair Work Act 2009); or\n\n (b) a workplace determination is made that covers the employee (for the purposes of the Fair Work Act 2009).\n\nNote: A workplace determination operates from the day on which it is made (see section 276 of the Fair Work Act 2009).\n\n7  Terms and conditions of employment\n\n (1) The terms and conditions of employment applying to an APS employee to whom this instrument applies:\n\n (a) are all of the terms and conditions of employment set out in the Meat Inspection Agreement, as that Agreement has effect under this section; and\n\n (b) are not any of the terms and conditions of employment set out in the DEE Agreement.\n\n (2) The Meat Inspection Agreement has effect as if:\n\n (a) a reference in that Agreement to the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources were a reference to the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment; and\n\n (b) a reference in that Agreement to an employee covered by that Agreement were a reference to an APS employee to whom this instrument applies; and\n\n (c) clause 3.3 of that Agreement (which specifies the nominal expiry date of that Agreement) were omitted.\n\n (3) If a determination under subsection 24(1) of the Act provides for an increased amount of salary for a classification set out in Table 8 or 9 in clause 28 of the Meat Inspection Agreement, the amount of salary set out in that table for that classification ceases to have effect on the commencement of that determination.\n\n (4) If a determination under subsection 24(1) of the Act provides for an increased amount of an allowance provided for in the Meat Inspection Agreement, the amount of that allowance set out in the Meat Inspection Agreement ceases to have effect on the commencement of that determination.\n\n8  Procedure for dealing with disputes\n\n  For the avoidance of doubt, clause 12 (which is about dispute resolution) of the Meat Inspection Agreement, as that Agreement has effect under section 7 of this instrument, is:\n\n (a) a term or condition of employment applying to an APS employee to whom this instrument applies; and\n\n (b) for the purposes of paragraph 738(d) of the Fair Work Act 2009, a term that provides a procedure for dealing with disputes arising under this instrument.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument maintains its original narrow scope. It was clearly designed as a transitional measure to preserve specific terms for meat inspectors during a departmental restructure, and it does exactly that without expanding to cover other employee groups or purposes."},"complexity_factors":["Short instrument: only 8 sections","Minimal defined terms: only 4 definitions in section 4","Single cross-reference mechanism: imports terms from the Meat Inspection Agreement by reference rather than reproducing them","Simple conditional logic: only 2 termination triggers in section 6 and 2 override provisions in sections 7(3)-(4)","No nested exceptions or complex temporal provisions","Straightforward application test: based solely on classification level in a specific department"],"plain_english_summary":"This workplace determination preserves and applies the pay and conditions of the Meat Inspection Agreement 2019–22 to APS Meat Inspectors (levels 1–4) in the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, updating department references and overriding the broader DEE Agreement. It allows separately determined salary and allowance changes to take effect and includes a dispute-resolution process.\n\nIt is a transitional measure to maintain specialised meat-inspection terms after departmental change until a new agreement or workplace determination is made."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument extends the operative scope of the Meat Inspection Agreement to APS Meat Inspector classifications in the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment by substituting departmental references and treating the Agreement as the APS employees’ terms (s5; s7(1)–(2)). It removes the Agreement’s nominal expiry (s7(2)(c)), excludes the DEE Agreement’s terms (s7(1)(b)), and allows Public Service Act salary/allowance determinations to supplant table amounts (s7(3)–(4)). It ceases to apply if a new enterprise agreement or workplace determination covers the employee (s6)."},"complexity_factors":["Dependence on an external enterprise agreement (Meat Inspection Agreement) to supply most terms of employment, requiring cross-reference rather than self-contained rules — s7(1)(a)–(b).","Interplay with the Public Service Act 1999: instrument made under s24(3) and allows s24(1) determinations to override salary and allowance table amounts — s3; s7(3)–(4).","Interaction with Fair Work Act 2009 instruments: cessation triggers when an enterprise agreement or workplace determination covers the employee (Fair Work Act scope) — s6 and explanatory note to s6.","Textual substitutions and omissions (department name replacement and omission of nominal expiry clause) change operational references without rewriting substantive terms — s7(2)(a)–(c).","Explicit exclusion of another enterprise agreement’s terms (DEE Agreement), creating a negative field of application that may require administrative checking — s4 (DEE Agreement defined); s7(1)(b).","Inclusion of a dispute-resolution procedure by cross-reference (clause 12 of the Meat Inspection Agreement treated as the instrument’s dispute procedure), tying internal APS dispute handling to the agreement’s processes and to paragraph 738(d) of the Fair Work Act — s8.","Limited population scope (specific APS classifications) narrows application but requires correct classification mapping under separate Classification Rules — s5.","Reliance on external documents and the Fair Work Commission website for the operative text of the Meat Inspection Agreement may create evidential or version-control burdens for administrators and employees — s4 (Meat Inspection Agreement note)."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination makes the terms of the existing Meat Inspection enterprise agreement the employment terms for APS Meat Inspector classifications in the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. The Commonwealth (the Department) remains the employer and pays salaries and allowances; pay or allowance increases set by Public Service Act determinations replace the agreement’s table amounts.\n\nIt updates departmental references, removes the agreement’s nominal expiry date, excludes terms of the DEE Agreement, and stops applying if an enterprise agreement or workplace determination later covers an employee."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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