New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS ACT 1986 - SECT 18

18 Date of registration

(1) For the purposes of section 15 (1) (b), the date on which a person becomes a registered worker is:

(a) except as provided by paragraph (b)-the date on which application for the person’s registration was lodged with the corporation, or

(b) such earlier date as the Corporation may, under subsection (2), fix in respect of the person or in respect of any class of persons to which the person belongs.

(2) The Corporation may, in respect of any person or class of persons, fix, for the purposes of subsection (1), an earlier date than the date on which that person or a person belonging to that class lodged an application with the Corporation to become a registered worker, but the Corporation shall not, at the request of a person, fix a date earlier than 2 years before the request to fix that earlier date was made unless it considers that special circumstances warrant its doing so.