[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 52 of 1987, s. 4 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 5 of 1990, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ][Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 68 of 1994, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]**[Section 3 Subsection (1) amended by No. 42 of 1996, s. 3 and Sched. 1 ]
(a) at the end of the last school term in a year, leaves the school at which he has received all or any of his secondary education; and
(b) on or after 1st February in the following year, is offered employment by an employer pursuant to a contract of service or apprenticeship –
and who, on the date on which he is offered that employment, is –
(c) registered as unemployed and available for full-time work with the Commonwealth Employment Service;
(d) participating in –
(i) the Community Youth Special Projects Scheme of the Commonwealth;
(ii) an employment training programme conducted by an educational institution in Tasmania, being a programme approved by the Minister by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (2)(a) ;
(iii) a Commonwealth Community Employment Programme;
(iv) a Commonwealth employment scheme or programme approved by the Minister by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (2)(b) ; or
(v) a Tasmanian employment or training scheme or programme approved by the Minister by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (2)(c) ; or
(e) registered as mentioned in paragraph (c) and participating in a scheme, or a programme, referred to in paragraph (d) ;
(b) employees in respect of whom he holds a subsisting exemption granted under section 34 (4) of that last-mentioned Act exempting him from holding such a policy of insurance in respect of those employees;
(c) outworkers within the meaning of that last-mentioned Act;
employment establishment, in relation to an employer, means the number of full-time positions, together with the number of positions for trainees, in Tasmania held by employees in a business which he manages, controls, or owns;
full-time position means a position held by an employee pursuant to a contract of service or apprenticeship under which the employee is engaged in work for an employer –
(a) in a case where an award or industrial agreement prescribes the ordinary hours of that work in each period that comprises a pay period – for the minimum number of those ordinary hours in each day required to be worked in that period; or
unemployed person means a person who was, for a continuous period of 3 months immediately preceding the commencement of his employment by an employer pursuant to a contract of service or apprenticeship entered into as provided in section 6(2)(a) –
(a) registered as unemployed and available for full-time work with the Commonwealth Employment Service;
(b) participating in –
(i) the Community Youth Special Projects Scheme of the Commonwealth;
(ii) an employment training programme conducted by an educational institution in Tasmania, being a programme approved by the Minister by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (2)(a) ;
(iii) a Commonwealth Community Employment Programme;
(iv) a Commonwealth employment scheme or programme approved by the Minister by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (2)(b) ; or
(v) a Tasmanian employment or training scheme or programme approved by the Minister by notice in writing pursuant to subsection (2)(c) ; or
(c) registered as mentioned in paragraph (a) and participating in a scheme, or a programme, referred to in paragraph (b) .
(2) *[Section 3 Subsection (2) amended by No. 52 of 1987, s. 4 ]*The Minister may, by notice in writing –