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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
South Australia
Long Service Leave (Calculation of Average Weekly
Earnings) Amendment Bill 2015
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Long
Service Leave Act 1987
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Long Service Leave
Act 1987
4Amendment of section
3—Interpretation
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Long Service Leave (Calculation of Average
Weekly Earnings) Amendment Act 2015.
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(4)(a)—delete paragraph (a) and substitute:
(a) any week when the relevant worker—
(i) was on unpaid leave for the whole of the week; or
(ii) was absent from work on account of a work injury (within the meaning
of the
Return
to Work Act 2014
) for which the worker received weekly payments under that Act or,
before 1 July 2015, under the
Workers
Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986
,
will be disregarded; and
(2) Section 3(4)(b)—after "unpaid leave" insert:
or an absence from work on account of a work injury (within the meaning of
the
Return
to Work Act 2014
) for which the worker received weekly payments under that Act or,
before 1 July 2015, under the
Workers
Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1986
Schedule 1—Transitional
provision
The amendments effected to the
Long
Service Leave Act 1987
by this Act apply in relation to any long service leave taken (or any
payment made in lieu of long service leave) on or after the commencement of this
Act (including so as to apply in relation to absences of a worker occurring
before the commencement of this Act).