EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 NO. 193
LONG SERVICE LEAVE (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued with the authority of the Public Service Board
Sections 7 and 11 of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976, read together, enable the regulations to provide that a person, authority, institution or body (including a company), whether incorporated or not, that is referred to in the regulations shall, for the purposes of the Act, be deemed to be, or to have been, an authority of a State.
Sections 7 and 11 also enable the regulations to provide that a period of employment in the service of a person, authority, institution or body (including a company) referred to in the regulations that is continuous with employment in Government Service shall be taken into account for long service leave purposes as if it had been employment in Government Service.
Section 26 of the Act provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The purpose of these amendments is to secure recognition, for long service leave purposes, of prior service with the Municipal Association of Victoria and Grazcos Supplies Pty. Limited.
The Municipal Association of Victoria is a body corporate created by the Municipal Association Act 1907 of Victoria. It promotes the efficiency of Municipal Corporations in that State and administers the Municipal Officers’ Fidelity Guarantee Fund. The rules of the Association are made with the approval of the Governor in Council and it is funded by contributions from Municipal authorities. It is appropriate, given the Association’s structure and responsibilities, that it be deemed to be an authority of the State for long service leave purposes.
Grazcos Supplies Pty. Limited formerly provided services to the Australian Wool Corporation in the handling and distribution of the raw wool stocks of the Corporation. On 30 June 1978 this arrangement was terminated and the Commission itself undertook those functions, also taking over the relevant staff of Grazcos Supplies. It is the usual practice of the Commonwealth to recognise the prior service of persons employed by an organisation not already recognised for long service leave purposes where the Commonwealth takes over the function of that organisation, and it is appropriate that that practice be continued in this case.