Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough

No. 26 of 1968

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1967 in relation to Long Service Leave for certain Seamen.

[Assented to 7 June 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1968.

(2.) The Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1967, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1968.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. After section 6 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1967 the following section is inserted:—

Award, &c., in relation to long service leave for seamen.

“6a.—(1.) This Act shall not be deemed to prevent the making of an award (including an award having effect from a date before the commencement of this section) or an order, or the certification of an agreement, under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1967 in relation to long service leave for seamen included in a prescribed class of seamen, or to affect the operation of such an award, order or agreement, and sub-section (2.) of section forty-one a of that Act, or that sub-section in its application in accordance with section seventy-four of that Act, does not apply in relation to any such award.

“(2.) Where a Commonwealth employee has, in accordance with an award or an agreement referred to in the last preceding sub-section, been granted long service leave, or been paid in lieu of long service leave, in respect of a period of service, no part of that period of service shall be included in the period of service of the Commonwealth employee for the purposes of this Act.

“(3.) In this section, ‘seaman’ has the same meaning as in Division 2 of Part III. of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1967.”.