Apprentices (Amendment) Act 1980 (NSW)

APPRENTICES ( A M E N D M E N T ) ACT, 1980,

N o . 186

A N N O V I C E S I M O N O N O

ELIZABETHE II REGINE

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Act No . 186, 1980.

An Act to amend the Apprentices Act, 1969, to extend the time for recovery of certain wages and other money under that Act and to increase penalties for breaches of that Act; and for other purposes. [Assented to, 17th December, 1980.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—

1.      This Act may be cited as the "Apprentices (Amendment)

Act, 1980".

2 .      The Apprentices Act, 1969, is referred to in this Act as the

Principal Act.

3.      The Principal Act is amended in the manner set forth in

Schedule 1.

Notwithstanding the operation of section 3 and Schedule 1 ( 2 ) , a person who, on or after the date of assent to this Act, is found guilty of an offence committed against the Principal Act before that date shall not be liable to any greater penalty than that to which he would have been liable if he had been found guilty of the offence immediately before that date.

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SCHEDULE 1.

A M E N D M E N T S T O T H E P R I N C I P A L A C T .

(1) Section 63 ( 2 ) —

Omit :—

twelve months immediately preceding the date of the application (where that person is still in the employment of that employer at that date) or within the last twelve months with that employer (where the employment was terminated before the date of the application).

SCHEDULE 1—continued.

A M E N D M E N T S T O T H E P R I N C I P A L ACT—cont inued.

An application under this subsection made after the termination of the employment shall be made not later than twelve months after the date of that termination.

Insert instead :—

6 years immediately preceding the date of the application

but not earlier than—

(c)	except as provided in paragraph (d)—12 months before the date of assent to the Apprentices (Amendment) Act, 1980; or
(d)	where the person's employment with the employer was terminated during the period of 12 months immediately preceding that date of assent—12 months before the date of termination of the employment.

(2) Sections 63 ( 6 ) , 64 ( 1 ) , 65 and 67 (1)-

Omit "two hundred dollars" wherever occurring, insert instead "$1,000".