This Section sets out that an appropriate authority may make provision about the matters that a Negotiating Body may or must consider when coming to an agreement.
	Subsection (1) establishes that an appropriate authority may make provision about the consideration by the Body of matters within its remit.
	Subsection (2) outlines, but does not represent an exhaustive list of, the provisions that may be made in regulations under subsection (1). These include provisions that:
outline circumstances in which a Negotiating Body may or must consider a matter that is within its remit and the power for the appropriate authority to refer specific matters to the Body for consideration;
specify, or enable the appropriate authority to specify, factors to which the negotiating Body may or must have regard to;
specify, or enable the appropriate authority to specify, conditions that any agreement made by the negotiating Body must meet, including conditions relating to funding;
specify any information-sharing requirements that members of the Negotiating Body may be subject to;
require the Negotiating Body to submit agreements about a matter to the appropriate authority; and,
require the Negotiating Body to take any steps specified in regulations before a date notified to it by the appropriate authority.
	Subsection (3) defines "specified" as specified in the regulations.
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