6Meaning of “employer”

6 Meaning of “employer”

6 Meaning of “employer”

(1) In this Act, employer means a person who—

(a) employs 1 or more persons to do community service work, or

(b) is in a class prescribed by the regulations.

Note—

Under section 7, the Minister may declare a person to be an employer.

(2) A person is an employer only in relation to a person the employer employs to do community service work.

(3) A person who supplies a person through a labour hire arrangement to do community service work is taken to be the employer who engages the person.

(4) In this Act, employer does not include the following—

(a) the Commonwealth,

(b) the State,

(c) a local government authority,

(d) a company whose only workers are directors, if each of the directors participates in the management of the company or shares its profits,

(e) a person to whom subsection (1)(a) applies who is excluded by the regulations.