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Industrial Relations Act 1996
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#### 317 Binding force of determination
317 Binding force of determination
> > (1) Subject to such exemptions and conditions as the Commission may direct, a contract determination is binding on all bailors and bailees or all principal contractors and carriers who are parties to contracts of the class to which the determination relates as the Commission may direct.
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> > (2) A contract determination that is binding on a carrier which is a corporation is, except to the extent that the determination otherwise provides, also binding on—
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> > > (a) any director of the corporation, or any member of the family of any such director, who personally does work under a contract to which the determination relates and to which the corporation is a party, and
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> > > (b) any holder of shares in the corporation who personally does work under any such contract if that holder, together with the members of his or her family, has a controlling interest in the corporation, and
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> > > (c) any member of the family of the holder of shares in the corporation who personally does work under any such contract if that holder, together with the members of his or her family, has a controlling interest in the corporation.
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> > (3) Without limiting subsection (1), the Commission may, in a contract determination or by a subsequent order, provide that the contract determination is binding on the successors of a principal contractor.
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> > (4) Subject to the exemptions and conditions that the Commission directs, a contract determination is binding on all parties in the contractual chain to which the determination relates.
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> **s 317:** Am 2025 No 20, Sch 1\[11\].