Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Amendment Act 1983 (Cth)

Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Amendment Act 1983

No. 93 of 1983

 

An Act to amend section 24 of the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979

[Assented to 22 November 1983]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Amendment Act 1983.

(2) The Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 19791is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

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

Inconsistency with other laws, &c.

3. Section 24 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-sections (3) to (7), inclusive, and substituting the following sub-sections:

“(3) Where a term of an award, whether made before the commencement of this sub-section or before the commencement of this Act or made after the commencement of this sub-section, that is in force and applies in relation to an

 

employee is inconsistent with a provision of this Act, the term shall prevail and the provision of this Act shall, to the extent of the inconsistency, be inoperative in relation to the employee.

“(4) In this section, 'award' means—

(a) an award or order made under, or an agreement certified under, the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904;

(b) a determination or order made under the Public Service Arbitration Act 1920; or

(c) an award, order or determination made by a prescribed person, tribunal or body under a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory other than the Northern Territory.”.

NOTE

1. No. 52, 1979, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 155, 1979; Nos. 26, 61 and 72, 1981; No. 111, 1982; and No. 39, 1983.