87LLong service leave

##### 87L Long service leave (1) Subject to subsection (2), where a person to whom this Division applies is engaged in eligible Commonwealth employment but the period of that employment would not, but for this subsection, be a period of employment in Government Service for the purposes of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976, that Act applies to him in respect of that period of employment in eligible Commonwealth employment as if it were employment in Government Service for the purposes of that Act unless: (a) if he became such a person while he was engaged in that employment—within 3 months after he became such a person; or (b) in any other case—within 3 months after he became engaged in that employment; he elects, in writing, for his long service leave entitlements to be determined otherwise. (2) Where: (a) a person to whom this Division applies is engaged in eligible Commonwealth employment; and (b) on the day on which he ceased, or last ceased, to be an officer: (i) section 75A, 81K or 81V of this Act or section 14 of the Statistics (Arrangements with States) Act 1956 applied to him; or (ii) a determination under section 81ZV of this Act, or under section 12 of the Aboriginal Affairs (Arrangements with the States) Act 1973, relating to long service leave applied to him; that section or that determination, as the case may be, applies to him as if he had continued in the Service since that day, unless he makes, or has made since that day, an election under subsection (1). (3) Where a person to whom this Division applies or has applied: (a) is employed in Government Service or in eligible Commonwealth employment referred to in subsection (1); and (b) was, prior to his current period of employment and while he was a person to whom Division 2 or 3 applied, employed for a period in eligible public employment that would not, but for this subsection, be a period of employment in a qualifying service for the purposes of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976; that Act applies to and in relation to him as if that period of employment in eligible public employment were a period of employment in other relevant service for the purposes of paragraph 11(2)(f) of that Act. (4) This section does not apply to a person to whom the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 does not apply by virtue of subsection 10(3) of the Act.