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Commonwealth Employees' Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 - Notice of Declaration under subsection 5(6) (Notice No. 4 of 1991)

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This ministerial notice makes people who, at the request or direction of an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) officer, assist in activities described as relating to Australia’s national interest be treated as Commonwealth employees for the Commonwealth Employees’ Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988. Mechanically, acts done in connection with carrying out those activities count as the person’s “employment”, so rehabilitation and compensation entitlements under the Act apply and the Commonwealth is treated as the employer.

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Commonwealth Employees' Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 - Notice of Declaration under subsection 5(6) (Notice No. 4 of 1991)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES’ REHABILITATION AND COMPENSATION ACT 1988

NOTICE OF DECLARATION

Notice No 4 of 1991

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 COLUMNCLASS OF PERSONS	SECOND COLUMNCLASS OF ACTS
Persons who, at the request or direction of an officer of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, 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 for Industrial Relations

15 July 1991

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1 Commonwealth Employees' Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 - Notice of Declaration under subsection 5(6) (Notice No. 4 of 1991)