66Offences concerning long service records

66 Offences concerning long service records

(1) An employer for a covered industry must keep a long service record relating to a worker during the worker's service with the employer.

(2) An employer for a covered industry must keep a long service leave record relating to a worker for at least 7 years after the worker stops working for the employer.

(3) A person must not make, without reasonable excuse, any false or misleading statement in, or any material omission from, a long service record.

(4) An employer for a covered industry must not refuse a request by a worker (or a worker's personal representative) to provide the worker (or the personal representative) with a copy of a long service record relating to the worker.

(5) Despite anything to the contrary in this or any other Act, a proceeding for an offence against subsection (1), (2), (3) or (4) may be commenced by filing a charge-sheet at any time within 6 years after the date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed.

(6) In this section—

employer includes a former employer;

worker includes a former worker.