{"id":"F2014L01356","name":"Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee – G20 Volunteers) Notice 2014","slug":"safety-rehabilitation-and-compensation-definition-of-employee-g20-volunteers-notice-2014","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":92330,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2014L01356-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee – G20 Volunteers) Notice 2014","content":"![](image.001.png)\n\nSafety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee – G20 Volunteers) Notice 2014\n\nI, ERIC ABETZ, Minister for Employment, make this Notice under subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.\n\nDated 16th October 2014\n\nERIC ABETZ\n\nMinister for Employment\n\n1 Name of Notice\n\nThis Notice is the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee – G20 Volunteers) Notice 2014.\n\n2 Commencement\n\nThis Notice commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.\n\n3 Declaration\n\nFor the purposes of subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988, I declare that:\n\n(a) the class of persons specified in Column 1 of the Schedule, being persons who engage in the activities or perform acts specified in Column 2 of the Schedule, shall be taken to be employed by the Commonwealth; and\n\n(b) the employment of such persons shall, for those purposes, be taken to be constituted by the performance by such persons of the acts or activities specified in Column 2 of the Schedule.\n\nSchedule\n\n| Column 1: Class of persons                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Column 2: Classes of acts                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |\n| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\n| Persons who, under the control or direction of a member of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s G20 Taskforce, assist, without receiving remuneration (other than payment of expenses incurred), in the running of the G20 Leaders’ Summit 2014. | Acts performed in connection with the rendering of assistance to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s G20 Taskforce for the period up to and including 21 November 2014; orActs performed in connection with the transportation, or provision of service or assistance, to delegates, media and guests of the G20 Leaders’ Summit 2014 for the period up to and including 21 November 2014. |","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This Notice serves exactly its original purpose: extending workers' compensation coverage to G20 volunteers for a specific event. It has not grown beyond this narrow, time-bound scope."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument (3 operative sections plus Schedule)","Only 1 defined class of persons and 2 classes of acts in the Schedule","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling provision (subsection 5(6) of the SRC Act)","Simple conditional structure: if you meet the description in Column 1 and do acts in Column 2, you are deemed an employee","No nested exceptions or complex temporal limitations beyond the single end date (21 November 2014)","Straightforward deeming provision (legal fiction) without additional qualifications"],"plain_english_summary":"This Notice temporarily extends Comcare workplace injury coverage to unpaid volunteers who worked under the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s G20 Taskforce at the 2014 G20 Leaders’ Summit, including those providing services or transport to delegates, media, and guests, up to and including 21 November 2014. It treats them as if they were Commonwealth employees for injury compensation purposes for that event only."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument exercises the declaration power in subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 to treat a specified class of volunteers as Commonwealth employees for the Act’s purposes during a defined period. The instrument does not amend the Act; it applies the Act’s employment definition to listed persons and acts for the stated timeframe (see s 3 and the Schedule)."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, time-limited operation: instrument applies only to acts performed up to and including 21 November 2014 (Schedule, Column 2).","Ministerial exercise of a statutory power: uses subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 to declare an employment class (instrument heading; s 3).","Dependence on factual conditions: coverage requires volunteers to be acting under the control or direction of a member of the PM&C G20 Taskforce (Schedule, Column 1), creating interpretive questions about when that condition is met.","Remuneration limitation: persons are unpaid except for expense reimbursement, which may affect classification and entitlement assessments (Schedule, Column 1).","Cross-references to external Act: meaning and effect depend on definitions and mechanisms in the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (instrument preamble; s 3).","Simple structural form: short instrument with a single declaratory provision and a schedule rather than multiple operative sections (whole instrument).","Commencement timing: takes effect the day after registration, which matters operationally for incident cut-off (s 2)."],"plain_english_summary":"This Ministerial notice declares certain unpaid volunteers who assist the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s G20 Taskforce in running the G20 Leaders’ Summit 2014 to be taken as employed by the Commonwealth for the purposes of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988. It covers specified assistance and transport/service acts performed up to and including 21 November 2014, making the Commonwealth the employer for compensation and rehabilitation obligations while the listed duties are carried out."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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