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Commonwealth Workplace Protection Orders Act 2025
No. 52, 2025
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C2025A00052
04 November 2025
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Object
4 Simplified outline of this Act
5 Definitions
6 Meanings of personal violence, affected worker and affected workplace
7 Meaning of authorised person
8 Act binds the Crown
9 Extension to external Territories
10 Extraterritorial operation
11 Concurrent operation of State and Territory laws
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Part 2—Commonwealth workplace protection orders
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Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
12 Simplified outline of this Part
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Division 2—Making Commonwealth workplace protection orders
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Subdivision A—Interim orders
13 Applying for an interim order
14 Court may make an interim order
15 When an interim order is in force
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Subdivision B—Urgent interim orders
16 Applying for an urgent interim order
17 Court may make an urgent interim order
18 When an urgent interim order is in force
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Subdivision C—Final orders
19 Applying for a final order
20 Court may make a final order
21 When a final order is in force
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Subdivision D—Consent orders
22 Making a consent order
23 When a consent order is in force
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Division 3—Content of Commonwealth workplace protection orders
24 Terms of a Commonwealth workplace protection order
25 Conditions of a Commonwealth workplace protection order
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Division 4—Varying or revoking Commonwealth workplace protection orders
26 Applying for variation or revocation of a Commonwealth workplace protection order
27 Requirement to apply for revocation if grounds no longer exist
28 Court may vary or revoke a Commonwealth workplace protection order
29 Court must revoke a Commonwealth workplace protection order if grounds no longer exist
30 When a variation or revocation takes effect
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Division 5—Offences
31 Offence for contravening a Commonwealth workplace protection order
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Division 6—Other matters relating to the making of Commonwealth workplace protection orders
32 Persons under 14
33 Representative and joint applications
34 Proceedings may be heard together
35 Matters not to affect court’s power to make Commonwealth workplace protection orders
36 Other orders not affected by a Commonwealth workplace protection order etc.
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Part 3—Other matters relating to Commonwealth workplace protection orders
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Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
37 Simplified outline of this Part
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Division 2—Jurisdiction and other matters relating to court proceedings
38 Jurisdiction
39 Right of appeal from final order decisions of certain State or Territory courts
40 Court must explain orders and give reasons for decisions
41 Names of affected workers not to be published
42 Standard of proof
43 Costs
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Division 3—Information management
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Subdivision A—Information sharing
44 Information about Commonwealth workplace protection orders to be given to firearms registries
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Subdivision B—Disclosure etc. of information
45 Use and disclosure of certain information for enforcement purposes
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Part 4—Miscellaneous
46 Simplified outline of this Part
47 Delegation by authorised persons
48 Review of operation of this Act
