This Section provides for access agreements, between "qualifying trade unions" and employers, which make provision for officials from those trade unions, to access the workplace or communicate with workers by other means, or both, for specified "access purposes".
	Subsection (2) inserts Chapter 5ZA, Rights of Trade Unions to access workplaces, into TULRCA, sections 70ZA to 70ZN.
	Subsection (3) amends section 263 (proceedings of the Central Arbitration Committee) of TULRCA and makes consequential amendments to section 263, including removing the unnecessary reference to ‘oversman’, which has the same meaning as ‘umpire’ in this context, and removing this reference is not intended to change the law.
	Subsection (4) inserts new section 263ZA (Proceedings of the Committee under section 70ZE) which details how the Central Arbitration Committee will operate when discharging the specific functions under the Section 70ZE – where the union and employer cannot agree on terms on which officials of a qualifying trade union are to have access.
	Subsection (5) makes consequential amendments to section 263A.
	Subsection (6) makes consequential amendments to section 264.
	Subsection (7) makes a consequential amendment to the Employment Relations Act 2004.
Part 4: Trade Unions and Industrial Action, etc Right of trade unions to access workplaces Section 59: Right of trade unions to access workplaces