Commentary on provisions of Act Section 19: Further powers of Certification Officer where enforcement order made
As the law currently stands, where the Certification Officer determines that there has been a breach of a specified requirement or rule the Certification Officer has the power to make a declaration and an order requiring a trade union to take certain steps. If an order is not complied with then it can be enforced in the same way as a court order. The Certification Officer currently has no powers to impose any form of financial sanctions.
	This section inserts a new section 256D into the 1992 Act to give effect to a new Schedule A4 contained in Schedule 3 of the Act. This will give the Certification Officer the power to impose financial penalties where he has the power to issue an enforcement order under a number of provisions specified in that Schedule.
	Subsection (4) amends a number of provisions of the existing legislation to clarify that enforcement orders made by the Certification Officer may be enforced as an order of the court by the Certification Officer as well as the applicant or other persons mentioned in the relevant sections.