Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies for the purposes of working out for the purposes of this Part how much of an advance for a person ' s employment by an employer is for a particular employment entitlement if the amount of the advance is reduced under section 17 for the person ' s debts to the employer.
(2) So far as the amount of the debt applied in the reduction relates to a thing described in column 1 of an item of the following table, the reduction is taken to be of the amount of the advance for the person ' s employment entitlement described in column 2 of the item.
Effect of applying debts r elating to particular things | ||
Item | Thing to which debt relates | Relevant employment entitlement |
1 | Annual leave | |
2 | Long service leave | |
3 | Payment in lieu of notice | Payment in lieu of notice entitlement |
4 | Redundancy pay | |
5 | Wages (except for annual leave or long service leave) | |
(3) So far as the amount of the debt applied in the reduction
does not relate to a thing described in column 1 of the table in subsection
( 2), the reduction is taken to have applied proportionally to what
would (apart from the reduction for that amount) have been the amounts of the
advance that would have been for particular employment entitlements.