EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1989 NO 271
Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Regulations (Amendment)
(Issued by the authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations)
Section 26 of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 (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.
Section 11 of the Act provides that the period of service of an employee for long service leave purposes is the period during which the employee has been employed continuously in Government service.
Subsection 7(2) of the Act provides that employment with a person, authority, institution or body (including a company), whether incorporated or not, that is prescribed in the regulations shall be taken into account for the purposes of section 11 as if it had been employment in Government Service.
Aerospace Technologies of Australia Pty. Limited is a wholly Commonwealth-owned company which was incorporated on 3 December 1986 under the Companies Act 1981 in the Australian Capital Territory.
This amendment to the Regulations with effect from the date of notification in the Gazette authorises the recognition as Government Service, for long service leave purposes, of prior service of any Commonwealth employee who was formerly employed by Aerospace Technologies of Australia Pty. Limited.