To regulate labour conditions and industrial employment generally. On 1 July 1990, as part of a re-organisation of the State Service, the Commission came under the administrative control of the Department of Employment, Industrial Relations and Training (DEIRT). Following the change of government it was transferred, on 18 February 1992, to the Department of Justice. On 18 August the Commission returned to the administrative control of DEIRT where it remained until 27 March 1996 when, after a Cabinet re-shuffle, it became part of the Department of Premier and Cabinet. Following another change of government the Commission again became part of an expanded Department of Justice, on 18 September 1998, which was renamed the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations.~