This Section outlines the powers of the appropriate authority to make regulations specifying the circumstances in which the appropriate authority may refer a submitted agreement back to a Negotiating Body for reconsideration.
	Subsection (1) allows the appropriate authority to specify in regulations that the appropriate authority may refer a submitted agreement back to a Negotiating Body for reconsideration or to specify that they may do so in specified circumstances.
	Subsection (2) allows the appropriate authority to set out in regulations what happens where an agreement is referred back to a Negotiating Body.
	Subsection (3) outlines, but does not represent an exhaustive list of, the provision that may be made under subsection (2). These include provisions that:
require the Negotiating Body to reconsider the agreement;
specify, or enable the appropriate authority to specify, factors that 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;
specify steps which the Negotiating Body may or must take following reconsideration, including submitting either the original or a revised agreement 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 (4) defines "specified" as specified in the regulations.
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