Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) The registrar must remove a person's registration from the workers register if the person has not been credited under this Act or a corresponding law with at least 1 day's service for 4 consecutive years.
(2) If a person's registration is removed under subsection (1)—
(a) the person stops being a registered worker on the day the registration is removed; and
(b) the person is not entitled to apply for, or be paid an amount for or instead of, long service leave for any days of service entered in the register before the day the person's registration ended.
(3) However, subsection (2) (b) does not apply if the person would, but for the person ceasing to be registered, have been entitled to payment for the period under section 70 (Entitlement to payment instead of leave).
(4) The registrar must not remove a person's registration from the workers register if the person stops carrying out building and construction work and tells the authority that the person is otherwise employed or engaged in work in the building and construction industry until whichever of the following first occurs:
(a) the person applies to the authority for payment of the total amount for or instead of long service leave;
(b) the person's employer makes an application under section 87A (Benefits under other laws—reimbursement of employer) for reimbursement of an amount paid under a relevant provision;
(c) if the person is a working director or contractor—the person asks the authority to remove the person's registration from the register;
(d) the period of 10 years starting on the day on which the person ceased to carry out building and construction work ends.
(5) A request under subsection (4) (c) must state—
(a) the date on which the person became otherwise employed or engaged in work in the building and construction industry; and
(b) the name and address of the principal place of business of the person's employer (if any).
(6) The governing board must direct the registrar to re-register a person in the workers register if—
(a) the person's registration has been removed from the register under subsection (1); and
(b) the board is satisfied that the person has been credited with a period of service under a corresponding law within the period of 4 years ending on the day on which the person's registration was removed from the register.
(7) If a person is re-registered under subsection (6), this Act applies in relation to the person as if the person's registration had not been removed from the register.
(8) This section does not affect any right that a
person whose registration has been removed from the workers register may have
to again become a registered worker.