South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts106—Certain periods of service to be regarded continuous
(1) If an employee
leaves the service of a council and, within 13 weeks of having done so, enters
the service of another council without having commenced other remunerated
employment within that intervening period, the periods of service will, for
the purpose of calculating present and accruing rights to long service leave
and sick leave, be taken to constitute a single continuous period of service.
(2) If an employee
engaged by a council is entitled to the benefit of subsection (1), that
council is entitled to receive from the other council a contribution of an
amount calculated in accordance with the regulations.
(2a) Payment of the
contribution must be made within one month after receipt of a written notice
requiring that payment.
(3) On default of
payment, the amount of a contribution payable under this section may be
recovered as a debt.
(4) A council must at
the request of another council supply that other council with details of the
service of an employee or former employee of the council.
(5) The amount of a
contribution received by a council under this section must be held and applied
in accordance with the regulations.
(a)
extend the operation of this section to other authorities or bodies; and
(b)
modify the application of this section in relation to such an authority or
body (in particular by requiring employment or periods of service outside the
local government sector to be disregarded).
(7) In this
section—
"council" includes a subsidiary constituted under this Act.