WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION. Industrial Relations Act 1979. IN THE MATTER of the Industrial Relations Act 1979 and IN THE MATTER of an application for a reduction of the time in which an answering statement to Application No. PI of 1995 is to be filed in the Commission. No. P2 of 1995. COMMISSIONER R.N. GEORGE. 13 January 1995. Order. WHEREAS an application has been made by The Civil Serv- ice Association of Western Australia (Inc) in accordance with the Industrial Relations Act, 1979; seeking an Order to shorten the time for the filing of an Answer to Application No. PI of 1995 to seven days, and WHEREAS the Applicant Association submits that the Application the subject ofthis Order concerns an award vari- ation permissible under the State Wage Principles which raises no issues of contention and which in the interests of its members who have not had a wage increase since No- vember 1991 ought be dealt with as a matter of urgency; and WHEREAS the Commission is satisfied on the submis- sions before it that any issues which do arise are largely procedural and that the Respondent(s) would not be preju- diced if the Application for shortened time for the filing of answers was to be shortened in the terms sought by the Ap- plicant Association. NOW THEREFORE, I, the undersigned Commissioner, having heard Mr K. Dodd on behalf ofthe Applicant and Mr B. Appleby on behalf of the Respondent(s) and pursuant to the powers conferred on me under the Industrial Relations Act, 1979, do hereby order- THAT an Answer and/or Counter Proposal to the claim made in Application No. PI of 1995 (filed with the Commission on 9 January 1995 and served on the Respondent(s) by post on 11 January 1995) shall be filed by the Respondent(s) and a copy thereof served on the Applicant by 4.30pm on Monday 23 January 1995. (Sgd.) R. N. GEORGE, [L.S] Commissioner.