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Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998
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#### 17 Ministers of religion
17 Ministers of religion
(cf former Sch 1 cl 17)
> > (1) The regulations may declare that persons within a specified class are ministers of religion of a specified religious body or organisation.
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> > (2) A person within such a class is, for the purposes of this Act, taken to be a worker employed by a person specified in the regulation as the employer of persons within that class.
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> > (3) A regulation relating to a religious body or organisation may not be made except at the request of that body or organisation.
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> > (4) An order under section 6 (14E) of the former 1926 Act, continued in force by clause 17 of Schedule 1 to the 1987 Act and in force immediately before the commencement of this clause has effect as if it were a regulation under this clause (but may be revoked by any such regulation).