Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough (No. 2)

No. 58 of 1968

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943–1967, as amended by the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1968, with respect to certain Leave.

[Assented to 25 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 (No. 2) 1968.

(2.) The Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943–1967, as amended by the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1968, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) Section 1 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1968 is amended by omitting sub-section (2.).

(4.) The Principal Act, 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.

Grant of extended leave or pay in lieu to Commonwealth employees not entitled to furlough.

3.—(1.) Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the word “eight” and inserting in its stead the word “four”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (c) of sub-section (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraphs:—

“(c) where the period of service of the Commonwealth employee is less than eight years—two months;

(ca) where the period of service of the Commonwealth employee is not less than eight years but is less than ten years—three months; or”.

(2.) The provision amended by the last preceding sub-section shall, as so amended, be deemed, in relation to a Commonwealth employee who was, on or after the first day of September, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven, and before the commencement of this Act, retrenched, within the meaning of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1959 or that Act as amended at any time, after a period of service of not less than four years but less than eight years, to have been in force when the Commonwealth employee was so retrenched.