(b) that is likely to arise or is threatened or impending;
industrial matter means any matter pertaining to the relations of employers and employees and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes –
(i) the mode, terms and conditions of employment; or
(ii) the termination of employment of an employee or former employee; or
(iii) the reinstatement or re-employment of an employee or a former employee who has been unfairly dismissed; or
(iv) the payment of compensation to an employee or a former employee if the Commission determines that reinstatement or re-employment is impracticable; or
(v) severance pay for an employee or a former employee whose employment is to be, or has been, terminated as a result of redundancy; or
(vi) a dispute under the Long Service Leave Act 1976 or the Long Service Leave (State Employees) Act 1994 relating to an entitlement to long service leave, or payment instead of any such leave, or the rate of ordinary pay at which any such leave or payment is to be paid in respect of an employee or former employee; or
industry means any industry, trade, business, undertaking, profession, calling, function, process, or work performed, carried on, or engaged in by a private employer;
inspector means an inspector appointed and holding office under section 74(2) , and includes the Secretary;
intervener means an intervener pursuant to section 27 ;
joint proceedings means proceedings in which a Commissioner sits with a member of the Australian Commission pursuant to section 17 ;
officer means a person appointed pursuant to section 18 ;
(a) that is performed by an employee on a regular basis for less hours per day or week than the ordinary hours of an equivalent full-time employee; and
(b) the hours of which may vary from time to time but will generally remain constant from day to day or week to week;
principal officer means, in relation to a State authority that is not an Agency, the president, chairman, or other principal or presiding member of the authority or, if the authority comprises a single person, that person;
private employer means an employer of a private employee, and includes every managing director or manager of any body corporate, partnership, firm, or association and, in the case of an unincorporated association, includes its secretary and every member of its governing body by whatever name called;
State authority means a body or authority, whether incorporated or not, which is established or constituted by or under an Act or under the royal prerogative, being a body or authority which, or of which, the governing authority, wholly or partly, comprises a person or persons appointed by the Governor, a Minister, or another State authority, but does not include a Government department;
State employee means a person who is employed in an Agency or by a State authority that is not an Agency other than a person –
(3) *[Section 3 Subsection (3) substituted by No. 113 of 1986, s. 4 ]*For the purposes of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, an organization has an interest in –
(a) an award if, in its certificate of registration issued and in force under section 64 , that award is specified as one in which a Commissioner has determined, under section 63(10)(c) or 65A(3) , that that organization has an interest; and
(i) the membership of that organization consists of or includes members who are employers or employees in an industry or occupation to which that matter relates or who are State employees to whom that matter relates; and
(ii) that membership is consistent with the organization's rules or constitution lodged with the Registrar pursuant to section 63(1) or consistent with those rules or that constitution as altered, in the case of an organization to which subsection (1) of section 67 applies, with the approval of the Registrar required under that subsection.
(4) [Section 3 Subsection (4) omitted by No. 105 of 1984, s. 4 ]. . . . . . . .
(5) If a question arises as to whether a body or an authority is or is not a State authority for the purposes of this Act, that question shall be determined by the Governor, and the Governor may accordingly, by order, declare that body or authority to be or not to be a State authority for the purposes of this Act.
(6) An order under subsection (5) , on being published in the Gazette, is conclusive evidence of what is declared in it.