Minimum Conditions of Employment Amendment Act 1996 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

MINIMUM CONDITIONS OF

EMPLOYMENT AMENDMENT

ACT 1996

No. 58 of 1996

AN ACT to amend the Minimum Conditions of Employment

Act 1993

[Assented to 11 November 1996.]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

No. 58] Minimum Conditions of Employment

s. 1 Amendment Act 1996

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Minimum Conditions of

Employment Amendment Act 1996.

Minimum Conditions Act

2. In this Act the Minimum Conditions of Employment Act

1993* is referred to as the Minimum Conditions Act

[* Act No 14 of 1993.]

Commencement

3. This Act is deemed to have come into operation on 1

December 1993.

Section 3 amended

4.   Section 3 of the Minimum Conditions Act is amended —

(a)	byinsertingafterthesectiondesignation‘‘3.’’the subsection designation ‘‘ (1)’’; and
(b)	by inserting the following subsections — ‘‘

In this Act a reference to a period worked does not include a reference to a period outside the hours the employee was required ordinarily to work during which the employee was on call.

(2)

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2),

the employee was ‘‘on call’’ in a period if,

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Amendment Act 1996 s. 4

in that period the employee was

required —

(a)	to remain at his or her place of employment; or
(b)	tobeavailabletoundertake duties of employment,

but was not required to undertake any

other duty of employment.

’’.

By Authority: JOHN A. STRIJK, Acting Government Printer