BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - As at 3 December 2009 - Act 33 of 1998 TABLE OF PROVISIONS TABLE OF PROVISIONS 1. Name of Act 2. Commencement 3. Amendment of Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 No 19 4. (Repealed) SCHEDULE 1 Schedule 4 (Repealed) BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - LONG TITLE An Act to amend the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 with respect to payments and claims under that Act; to amend certain other Acts consequentially; and for other purposes. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - SECT 1 Name of Act 1 Name of Act This Act is the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Amendment Act 1998. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - SECT 2 Commencement 2 Commencement (1) This Act commences on a day or days to be appointed by proclamation, except as provided by subsection (2). (2) Schedule 2 commences on the date of assent to this Act. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - SECT 3 Amendment of Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 No 19 3 Amendment of Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 No 19 The Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 is amended as set out in Schedules 1–3. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - SCHEDULE 1 SCHEDULE 1 – Amendments (Section 3) [8] Section 18 (2)–(4) Omit section 18 (2). Insert instead: (2) The Corporation may at its discretion, of its own motion or at the request (made within 3 months after approval of the application) of a person by or in respect of whom an application for registration is made, fix for the purposes of this section a date that is earlier than the date of lodgment of the application, if it is satisfied that special circumstances warrant its doing so. (3) A date fixed in accordance with subsection (2) must not be earlier than 5 years before the commencement of the financial year in which the relevant application is lodged. (4) On the fixing of a date in accordance with subsection (2): (a) the person is taken for all purposes to have been registered on and from that date, and (b) service credits to which the person is entitled under this Act may be credited to the person in respect of any subsequent dates. [24] Section 24 (4)–(6) Insert after section 24 (3): (4) Section 32, however, applies to each day’s service referred to in subsection (3) as though it had been credited to the worker. (5) The Corporation may decline to credit service or accept any claim of which notice is not given to the Corporation within the time limited by section 20 or 21, as the case may be, and no credit is to be given in respect of: (a) service that is not notified, in the manner required by this Act, until more than 5 years after the end of the financial year that includes the period of service, or (b) any matter mentioned in section 23 in respect of which no claim is made, in the manner required by this Act, until more than 5 years after the end of the financial year that includes the period to which the claim relates. (6) A service credit that, calculated in accordance with section 22 or 23, results in a number of days consisting of a whole number plus a fraction is to be adjusted to the next succeeding whole number. BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - NOTES See also: Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Amendment Bill 2009 BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE PAYMENTS AMENDMENT ACT 1998 - NOTES Historical notes The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes: ______________________________________________________________________ |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| |______________________________________________________________________| Table of amending instrumentsBuilding and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Amendment Act 1998 No 33. Assented to 15.6.1998. Date of commencement, Sch 1 [8] and so much of Sch 1 [24] as would insert sec 24 (5) and Sch 2 excepted, 1.7.1998, sec 2 (1) and GG No 97 of 26.6.1998, p 4421; date of commencement of Sch 1 [8] and so much of Sch 1 [24] as would insert sec 24 (5): not in force; date of commencement of Sch 2, assent, sec 2 (2). This Act has been amended as follows: _______________________________________________________________________ | | |Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1998. Assented to| |1998|No 54|30.6.1998. | | | | | |_______________________________________________________________________| | | |Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) | |2003|No 82|Act (No 2) 2003. Assented to 27.11.2003. | | | | | |_______________________________________________________________________| Table of amendments _____________________________________________________ |_____________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________| |_____________________________________________________|