EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 NO 95
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, inter alia, that for long service leave purposes, the prior service of a person in any service of an authority of a state shall be recognised for the purposes of the Act where such period was continuous with that person’s current period of employment in Government Service.
Subsection 7(1) of the Act provides that regulations may be made 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.
The Mayfield Centre in Malvern, Victoria is registered as a “benevolent society” under the Hospitals and Charities Act 1958 (Vic). Since 1963, the Mayfield Centre has been established as the central training authority for the public hospitals of the State of Victoria. The Mayfield Centre is totally funded under the Hospitals and Charities Act and it is directly responsible to the Health Department of Victoria.
The amendment will authorise the recognition, for long service leave purposes, of prior service of a person who was employed at the Mayfield Centre.