Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsThe main objects of this Act are:
(a) to provide for the Commonwealth to pay advances on account of unpaid employment entitlements of former employees of employers in cases where:
(i) the employers are insolvent or bankrupt; and
(ii) the end of the employment of the former employees was connected with that insolvency or bankruptcy; and
(iii) the former employees cannot get payment of the entitlements from other sources; and
(b) to allow the Commonwealth to recover the advances through
the winding up or bankruptcy of the employers and from other payments the
former employees receive for the entitlements.