Training Guarantee Act 1990
No. 59 of 1990
An Act to impose a charge equal to any shortfall in the amount spent by employers on training employees
[Assented to 16 June 1990]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Training Guarantee Act 1990.
Commencement
2. This Act commences on 1 July 1990.
Incorporation of Training Guarantee (Administration) Act
3. The Training Guarantee (Administration) Act 1990 is incorporated and is to be read as one with this Act.
Act binds Crown
4. This Act binds the Crown in right of each State, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory and Norfolk Island.
Imposition of charge
5. Charge is imposed on any training guarantee shortfall of an employer in a year.
Amount of charge
6. The amount of training guarantee charge payable on a training guarantee shortfall of an employer in a year is an amount equal to the amount of the shortfall.
Severability
7. It is the intention of the Parliament that if, but for this section, section 5 would impose a training guarantee charge on a State that exceeds the legislative power of the Commonwealth, section 5 of this Act has effect as if it did not impose that charge.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 16 May 1990
Senate on 30 May 1990]