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South Australia
Long Service Leave (Unpaid Leave) Amendment
Bill 2008
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Long Service Leave Act 1987.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Long Service Leave
Act 1987
4 Amendment of section
3—Interpretation
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Long Service Leave (Unpaid Leave) Amendment
Act 2008.
This Act will come into operation on a day to be fixed by
proclamation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Long Service Leave
Act 1987
4—Amendment of
section 3—Interpretation
(1) Section 3(2)(b)—delete "(disregarding weeks when the worker was
on paid leave)"
(2) Section 3—after subsection (3) insert:
(4) For the purpose of averaging weekly earnings under
subsection (2)(a) or the number of hours worked per week under
subsection (2)(b)—
(a) any week when the relevant worker was on unpaid leave for the whole of
the week will be disregarded; and
(b) the relevant periods under subsection (2)(a) and (2)(b) will be
taken to be periods (which need not be consecutive) totalling 12 months (in
the case of subsection (2)(a)) or 3 years (in the case of
subsection (2)(b)) after disregarding any weeks when the worker was not at
work due to unpaid leave; and
(c) any period when the relevant worker was on paid leave will be taken
into account.