Commonwealth legislation

Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management (Employment Protection—Bushfires) Direction 2019

RepealedCTH

This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

1/10 complexity

What it does

This direction temporarily switches on job protection rules for people helping fight the 2019 bushfires in the Jervis Bay Territory.

Key points

Protects emergency workers: It activates Part 4 of the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management Ordinance 2015, which prevents employers from sacking, demoting, or otherwise disadvantaging employees who take time off work to help with bushfire emergency operations (whether paid or volunteer).
Limited timeframe: It only applies to emergency operations during the specific bushfire emergency declared on 19 December 2019, which lasted until 26 December 2019.
Self-terminating: The direction automatically expires at the end of 26 December 2019.

Who it affects

Anyone employed in Australia who takes time off to assist with bushfire response in the Jervis Bay Territory during this emergency period, and their employers.

JSON API

Deep dive

Want the full deep dive?

Zoe can write the in-depth analysis on top of the summary above: how it works, who it affects and what each part actually does.

Current sections

Direct links to the current provisions in Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management (Employment Protection—Bushfires) Direction 2019.

Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management (Employment Protection—Bushfires) Direction 2019

meta-content-style-type: text/css meta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia

Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management (Employment Protection—Bushfires) Direction 2019

I, Alex Foulds, delegate of the Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories, make the following direction.

Dated 23 December 2019

Alex Foulds

Executive Director, Territories Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Direction

6 Repeal

1 Name

This instrument is the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management (Employment Protection—Bushfires) Direction 2019.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences the day after it is registered.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 31(1) of the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management Ordinance 2015.

4 Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Ordinance, including the following:

(a) emergency;

(b) emergency operation.

In this instrument:

Ordinance means the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management Ordinance 2015.

5 Direction

Part 4 of the Ordinance applies to all emergency operations carried out in connection with the emergency the subject of the Declaration of State of Emergency (Jervis Bay Territory) made on 19 December 2019 at 6:00pm.

Note: The declared state of emergency remains in force until the end of 26 December 2019.

6 Repeal

This instrument is repealed at the end of 26 December 2019.

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

meta-content-style-type: text/css meta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8

?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>

Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management (Employment Protection—Bushfires) Direction 2019

I, Alex Foulds, delegate of the Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories, make the following direction.

Dated 23 December 2019

Alex Foulds

Executive Director, Territories Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Definitions

5 Direction

6 Repeal

1 Name

This instrument is the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management (Employment Protection—Bushfires) Direction 2019.

2 Commencement

This instrument commences the day after it is registered.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under subsection 31(1) of the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management Ordinance 2015.

4 Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Ordinance, including the following:

(a) emergency;

(b) emergency operation.

In this instrument:

Ordinance means the Jervis Bay Territory Emergency Management Ordinance 2015.

5 Direction

Note: The declared state of emergency remains in force until the end of 26 December 2019.

6 Repeal

This instrument is repealed at the end of 26 December 2019.

Read the source document