The Authority 3.1 The Parties acknowledge that the legal and official title of the Authority is as set out in 1.1 above. 3.2 The Parties agree that for public purposes the Authority shall be known as the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority. 3.3 The Parties will take such steps as are necessary to ensure that the Authority is appropriately referred to in documentation and in any other sources of information.
Authority of the Arbitrator i. It is the intent of both parties to this Collective Agreement that no grievance shall be defeated merely because of a technical error in processing the grievance through the grievance procedure. To this end an arbitrator shall have the power to allow all necessary amendments to the grievance and the power to waive formal procedural irregularities in the processing of a grievance in order to determine the real matter in dispute and to render a decision according to equitable principles and the justice of the case. ii. The arbitrator shall not have jurisdiction to alter or change the provisions of the Collective Agreement or to substitute new ones. iii. The provisions of this article do not override the provisions of the B.C.