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Commonwealth Employees' Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 - Notice of Declaration under subsection 5(6)

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Under subsection 5(6) of the Commonwealth Employees’ Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988, the Minister declares that people who, while under the control or direction of an Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) officer, assist in activities “relating to Australia’s national interest” are to be treated as Commonwealth employees for the Act, and that their employment is constituted by the acts they perform. This brings those people into the Commonwealth’s rehabilitation and compensation scheme, making the Commonwealth responsible for assessing and meeting claims linked to those acts.

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Commonwealth Employees' Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 - Notice of Declaration under subsection 5(6)

I, Peter Francis Salmon Cook, Minister of State for Industrial Relations, hereby declare under subsection 5 (6) of the Commonwealth Employees’ Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 –

(a) that a person who is included in a class of persons specified in the first column of the following table, being a class of persons who engage in activities or perform acts at the request or direction, or for the benefit, of the Commonwealth, shall for the purposes of the Act, be taken to be employed by the Commonwealth; and

(b) that the employment of the person shall, for the purposes of the Act, be taken to be constituted by the performance by the person of an act or acts included in the class of acts specified in the second column of that table opposite to the reference to that class of persons.

FIRST COLUMN	SECOND COLUMN
CLASS OF PERSONS	CLASS OF ACTS
Persons who, under the control or direction of an officer of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, render assistance in activities relating to Australia’s national interest.	Acts performed in connection with the carrying out of the activities.

(signed)

Peter Cook

Minister of State for Industrial Relations

21 February 1991

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1 Commonwealth Employees' Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 - Notice of Declaration under subsection 5(6)

I, Peter Francis Salmon Cook, Minister of State for Industrial Relations, hereby declare under subsection 5 (6) of the Commonwealth Employees’ Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 –

FIRST COLUMN	SECOND COLUMN
CLASS OF PERSONS	CLASS OF ACTS
Persons who, under the control or direction of an officer of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, render assistance in activities relating to Australia’s national interest.	Acts performed in connection with the carrying out of the activities.

(signed)

Peter Cook

Minister of State for Industrial Relations

21 February 1991