How to read a consolidated award

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Reading an award online

The online version of each consolidated modern award includes the following features.

Navigation

The left-hand column contains an expandable and collapsible table of contents. Entries in the table of contents are linked to the corresponding provision within the modern award.

Navigation buttons (Prev, 1st Page, Top, Next) appear at the top and bottom of each page.

Header information

The header of each page of the modern award provides access to additional information relevant to that award, as well as to general information about the national workplace relations system and changes that came into effect on 1 January 2010.

Transitional arrangements – This entry will appear in modern awards that contain transitional arrangements; it links to the transitional provisions clause within the award. Transitional arrangements may specify when particular parts of a modern award come into effect. Some transitional arrangements appear in clauses in the main part of the award, some may also appear in a schedule. Transitional arrangements may deal with:

minimum wages and piecework rates
casual or part-time loadings
Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, evening or other penalties
shift allowances/penalties.

Award history – Links to an historical list of individual documents affecting this award. Where available electronically, individual documents are accessible from this list.

Disclaimer – Please note that consolidated awards are prepared by the staff of the Fair Work Commission and are believed to be accurate but no warranty of accuracy or reliability is given and no liability is accepted for errors or omissions or loss or damage suffered as a result of a person acting in reliance thereon.

Copies of official decisions, awards and orders of the Commission and its predecessor bodies can be accessed through this website, or purchased from any Commission office.

Explanation of history notations

Whenever part of an award is varied a 'history notation' is inserted just above the clause or paragraph that has been changed or inserted.

The operative dates for all current variations appear in the history notation.
Each operative date for current variations is written in the same style, ie 2 digit day/3 letter month/last 2 numbers of the year, eg 16Jun03.
Each date is prefixed by ppc or from as reflected in the order. The prefix ppc stands for 'pay period commencing'. The prefix from is used in most other cases when the operative date commences from a particular date.

Terms used in history notations	Explanation
varied [clause no.] varied by PRxxxxxx from dd mmm yy	used when an item of a variation alters, amends, deletes, inserts, replaces, substitutes or varies part of a clause, subclause, paragraph etc.
substituted [clause no.] substituted by PRxxxxxx ppc dd mmm yy [insert name of new item] inserted byPRxxxxxx from dd mmm yy	Used when a clause, subclause, paragraph etc. is deleted in its entirety and replaced by new text, eg “By deleting clause 4.2 and inserting a new clause 4.2 as follows:” Only the most recent substitution has an operative date as all other substitutions and/or variations are superseded.
inserted [clause no.] inserted by PRxxxxxx ppc dd mmm yy	Used when an item of a variation adds a completely new clause, subclause, paragraph etc, eg 'By inserting a new clause 4A as follows:'
deleted [clause no.] deleted by PRxxxxxx ppc dd mmm yy	Used when a clause, subclause, paragraph etc is deleted entirely.

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03 June 2016

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