Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Act 1977 (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH TEACHING SERVICE AMENDMENT ACT 1977

No. 26 of 1977

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Teaching Service Act 1972.

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

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Teaching Service Amendment Act 1977.

(2) The Commonwealth Teaching Service Act 1972 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 April 1977.

Interpretation.

3. Section 43p of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “prescribed teacher” and substituting the following definitions:—

“‘prescribed teacher’ means—

(a) a member of the Service who became such a member after 13 September 1973 and before 1 January 1974 and was, immediately before becoming such a member—

(i) employed in the teaching service of New South Wales and engaged in teaching duties in a Commonwealth school in the Australian Capital Territory; or

(ii) employed in the teaching service of South Australia and engaged in teaching duties in a Commonwealth school in the Northern Territory;

or

(b) a member of the Service who became such a member after 31 December 1976 and before 1 April 1977 and was, immediately before becoming such a member, employed in the teaching service of New South Wales and engaged in full-time teaching duties in the Australian Capital Territory in connexion with the provision of technical and further education, that is to say, education provided by way of a course of instruction or training—

(i) that is, or that is preparatory to, a course of a kind relevant to a trade, technical or other skilled occupation; or

(ii) that otherwise meets the educational needs of persons who are not enrolled in a full-time course of education at a primary school, a secondary school or a secondary college;

“‘relevant date’ means—

(a) in relation to a prescribed teacher referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of ‘prescribed teacher’—1 January 1974; and

(b) in relation to a prescribed teacher referred to in paragraph (b) of that definition—1 April 1977;

Long service leave.

4. Section 43q of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “on 1 January 1974” and substituting the words “on the relevant date”.