Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave Amendment Act 1991 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

COAL MINING INDUSTRY

LONG SERVICE LEAVE AMENDMENT ACT 1991

No. 41 of 1991

AN ACT to amend the Coal Mining Industry Long Service

Leave Act 1950.

[Assented to 12 December 1991]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Coal Mining Industry Long

Service Leave Amendment Act 1991.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it

receives the Royal Assent.

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Amendment Act 1991

Principal Act

3. In this Act, the Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave Act

1950* is referred to as the principal Act.

[*Reprinted as approved 7 April 1971; amended by Act No. 98 of

1985.]

Section 2 amended

4.    Section 2 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1) by

deleting the definition of "award" and substituting the following

definition

IC "award" means

(a) an award or variation of an award relating to long service leave for employees in the coal mining industry in the State-

(i)    made by the Central Reference Board or by the Local Reference Board of the State before the commencement of the Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave Amendment Act 1991 ("the 1991 Act");

(ii)   declared by proclamation made before the commencement of the 1991 Act to be within the interpretation of "award" under this Act; or

(iii)  registered under a written law before or after the commencement of the 1991 Act;

and

(b) any order or interpretation made or given, whether before or after the commencement of the 1991 Act, under or in relation to any such award or variation of an award. ".

Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave [No. 41

Amendment Act 1991

Validation

5. Any purported payment made or purported approval given under the principal Act before the commencement of this Act that would have been validly made or given if this Act had then been in force is validated.