1 This appeal involves the interpretation of various provisions of the Industrial Relations Act 1984 ("the Act"). The applicant's former employee Mr Letter ("the worker") was in dispute with the applicant over the amount of severance pay he received in respect of the termination of his employment with it as a result of redundancy. He had been employed by the applicant company for 37 years. Talk of a redundancy had started in March 1997 and resumed in March 1998. In April 1998, the worked accepted the applicant's redundancy offer. Although accepting the offer, the worker disputed its adequacy. He claimed an entitlement to two weeks' pay for each year of service (ie, 74 weeks) but accepted a package of 55 weeks' pay, 4 weeks' pay in lieu of notice and $8,000 compensation for the loss of use of a company car. The worker, although accepting the package in April, did not finish work with the applicant company until 30 June 1998. He lodged an application for a dispute hearing over his redundancy on 10 August 1998, ie, over five weeks after his employment was terminated. He was unaware of any time limit on his application until early August 1998. These proceedings raise the question whether any such time limit applies in respect of a dispute of this kind, for the Commissioner allocated to hear the dispute pursuant to the Act, s29, held that it did apply, exercised a discretion to refuse an extension of time and dismissed the application. An appeal to the Full Bench of the respondent Commission succeeded on the basis that the time limit did not apply and the worker's application was remitted to another Commissioner. These proceedings seek the quashing of that decision and the orders made in accordance with it.