New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ANNUAL HOLIDAYS ACT 1944 - SECT 7

7 Worker in employment at commencement of Act

(1) Where provision is made by or under any Act, other than this Act, or by any award, agreement or contract of employment in force at the commencement of this Act, for an annual holiday for any worker who is in employment at such commencement, and the worker has not at such date completed the qualifying period of employment which would entitle the worker to such annual holiday, the worker shall be entitled to receive an annual holiday of a period which bears the same proportion to the period of annual holiday specified in that provision as the portion of such qualifying period during which the worker has been employed immediately before the commencement of this Act bears to the whole of such qualifying period.

(2) Where provision is made by or under any Act, other than this Act, or by any award, agreement or contract of employment in force at the commencement of this Act for an annual holiday for any worker who is in employment at such commencement, and the worker has before such commencement become entitled under that provision to such annual holiday but has not taken the same, the worker’s right to such annual holiday shall not be affected by anything contained in this Act.