New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SNOWY HYDRO CORPORATISATION ACT 1997 - SECT 16

16 Transfer to Company of certain Pacific Power employees

(1) The Minister may, by order, declare that a specified employee of Pacific Power who was, immediately before the corporatisation date, seconded to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority or working on the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme or employed in connection with the trading of electricity generated by the Scheme is taken:

(a) to have ceased to be employed by Pacific Power immediately before that date, and

(b) to have been engaged by the Snowy Hydro Company as an employee of that Company with effect on and from that date, and

(c) to have been so engaged on the same terms and conditions as those that applied to the person, immediately before that date, as an employee of Pacific Power, and

(d) to have accrued an entitlement to benefits, in connection with that engagement by that Company, that is equivalent to the entitlement that the person had accrued, as an employee of Pacific Power, immediately before that date.

(2) An order under this section has effect according to its tenor.

(3) The service of a transferred employee as an employee of the Company is taken for all purposes to have been continuous with the service of the employee, immediately before the corporatisation date, as an employee of Pacific Power.

(4) A transferred employee is not entitled to receive any payment or other benefit merely because he or she stopped being an employee of Pacific Power as a result of an order under this section.

(5) A reference in subsection (1) (c) to terms and conditions is a reference to terms and conditions that are set out in:

(a) a written contract of employment, or

(b) a State industrial instrument.

(6) This section has effect subject to this Division.

(7) In this section, "Pacific Power" includes a subsidiary of Pacific Power.