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Workplace Relations Regulations 1996
4Definition of public sector employment in the Act: prescribed laws and persons
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4 Definition of public sector employment in the Act: prescribed laws and persons
(1) For the purposes of paragraph (e) of the definition of public sector employment in subsection 4 (1) of the Act, each of the following laws is prescribed:
(a) Naval Defence Act 1910;
(b) Supply and Development Act 1939;
(c) Australian Federal Police Act 1979;
(d) Governor-General Act 1974.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of public sector employment in subsection 4 (1) of the Act, each of the following classes of persons is prescribed:
(a) members of the Defence Force;
(b) members of the Police Force of the Northern Territory;
(c) persons employed by, or in the service of:
(i) a Commonwealth authority referred to in Schedule 3; or
(ii) a body that is a subsidiary of a Commonwealth authority referred to in Schedule 3 in which body the Commonwealth authority has a controlling interest;
(d) persons who hold an office established under a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory, other than persons who, otherwise than in their capacity as the holder of such an office, are employed or serve in a capacity described in paragraphs (a) to (e) of that definition of public sector employment.
Example
An example of a person who would fall within the exception to paragraph (d) is an APS employee who also holds a part-time statutory office, or who is granted leave without pay from his or her APS employment in order to take up a full-time statutory office.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (g) of the definition of public sector employment in subsection 4 (1) of the Act, the following law is prescribed, namely, the Prisons (Correctional Services) Act 1980 of the Northern Territory.