Victorian Current Acts

EDUCATION AND TRAINING REFORM ACT 2006 - SECT 5.4.16

    (1)     The Governor in Council may, by Order published in the Government Gazette, fix a rate of payment for students employed under a practical placement agreement.

    (2)     A student employed under a practical placement agreement is not entitled to receive any remuneration except payment at the rate that is fixed by Order of the Governor in Council.

    (3)     The minimum rate of payment payable to a student employed under a practical placement agreement, despite anything to the contrary in any Act or law, is the minimum rate of payment as fixed by Order of the Governor in Council.

    (4)     A department of the Commonwealth Government or a body established pursuant to a Commonwealth Act that employs a student under a practical placement agreement is not required to make any payment to the student, despite anything to the contrary in this or in any other Act or in any law or training contract.

S. 5.4.16(5) amended by No. 67/2013 s. 649(Sch. 9 item 13(2)).

    (5)     For the purposes of the Accident Compensation Act 1985 and the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013 , a student employed under a practical placement agreement is deemed to be paid the minimum rate of payment as fixed by Order of the Governor in Council.