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Queensland
Statutory Bodies Legislation
Amendment Bill 2007
Queensland
Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment
Bill 2007
Contents
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Part 1 Preliminary
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Part 2 Amendment of Agricultural College Act 2005
2 Act amended in pt 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3 Amendment of long title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4 Amendment of s 14 (Delegation by corporation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5 Replacement of pt 2, div 5 (Staff of corporation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Division 5 Other provisions
15 Corporation may enter into work performance
arrangements ............................ 15
6 Insertion of new pt 2A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Part 2A Australian Agricultural College Employing
Office
Division 1 Establishment and functions of employing
office
16 Establishment of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
17 Employing office represents the State . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
18 Functions of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Division 2 Executive officer
19 Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
20 Executive officer acting for employing office. . . . . . . . 17
Division 3 Staff of employing office
20A Employing office may employ staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
20B Preservation of rights in relation to public service
employees .............................. 18
20C Secondment as employee of employing office . . . . . . 18
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20D Employing office may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Division 4 Other provisions
20E Employing office is statutory body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
7 Amendment of pt 4, div 2 hdg (Director and other staff of
agricultural college) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
8 Amendment of s 37 (Director and other staff) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
9 Amendment of s 39 (Student advisory council) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
10 Insertion of new pt 6, div 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Division 3 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
60 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 22
61 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
62 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
63 Continued application of repealed provisions. . . . . . . 24
11 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Part 3 Amendment of Libraries Act 1988
12 Act amended in pt 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
13 Amendment of s 2 (Interpretation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14 Amendment of pt 2, div 2 hdg (State librarian and staff) . . . . . . . 25
15 Amendment of s 13 (State librarian and other officers) . . . . . . . . 25
16 Amendment of s 17 (Delegation by State librarian) . . . . . . . . . . . 26
17 Omission of s 18 (Employees) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
18 Relocation and renumbering of s 19 (Superannuation schemes) 26
19 Amendment of s 20 (Functions of board) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
20 Amendment of s 24 (Restrictions on powers of board) . . . . . . . . 27
21 Amendment of s 25 (Persons having dealings with board etc.) . . 27
22 Amendment of s 40 (Delegation by board). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
23 Insertion of new pt 2, div 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Division 6 Other provisions
40A Board may enter into work performance
arrangements ......................... 27
24 Amendment of s 81 (Inspection of material or receptacle
brought onto board's premises) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
25 Insertion of new pt 10, div 1 hdg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
26 Amendment of s 88 (Definition for pt 10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
27 Insertion of new pt 10, div 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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Legislation Amendment Act 2007
90 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 29
91 Non-application of Industrial Relations Act 1999,
s 167 ................................ 30
92 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
board ................................. 31
93 Continued application of repealed s 18 . . . . . . . . . . . 31
94 Application of Act to particular officers . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Part 4 Amendment of Major Sports Facilities Act 2001
28 Act amended in pt 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
29 Insertion of new s 25A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
25A Authority may enter into work performance
arrangements ............................ 32
30 Amendment of s 30 (Delegations) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
31 Insertion of new pt 3A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Part 3A Major Sports Facilities Employing Office
Division 1 Establishment and functions of employing
office
30AA Establishment of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
30AB Employing office represents the State . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
30AC Functions of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Division 2 Executive officer
30AD Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
30AE Executive officer acting for employing office. . . . . . . . 35
Division 3 Staff of employing office
30AF Employing office may employ staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
30AG Employing office may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Division 4 Other provisions
30AH Employing office is statutory body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
32 Insertion of new pt 6, div 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Division 6 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
80 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 37
81 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
33 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Part 5 Amendment of Queensland Art Gallery Act 1987
34 Act amended in pt 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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35 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
36 Amendment of pt 2, div 2 hdg (Director and staff) . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
37 Amendment of s 12 (Director and other officers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
38 Omission of s 13 (Employees) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
39 Amendment of s 17 (Delegation by director) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
40 Relocation and renumbering of s 18 (Superannuation schemes) 41
41 Amendment of s 23 (Restrictions on powers of board) . . . . . . . . 41
42 Amendment of s 24 (Persons having dealings with board etc.) . . 41
43 Amendment of s 40 (Delegation by board). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
44 Insertion of new pt 2, div 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Division 6 Other provisions
40A Board may enter into work performance
arrangements ......................... 42
45 Amendment of s 52 (Monitoring and assessment of board). . . . . 43
46 Insertion of new pt 7, div 1 hdg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
47 Amendment of s 69 (Definition for pt 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
48 Insertion of new pt 7, div 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Division 2 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
71 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 44
72 Non-application of Industrial Relations Act 1999,
s 167 ................................ 45
73 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
board ................................. 45
74 Continued application of repealed s 13 . . . . . . . . . . . 45
75 Application of Act to particular officers . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Part 6 Amendment of Queensland Building Services Authority Act
1991
49 Act amended in pt 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
50 Amendment of s 10A (Appointment of members) . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
51 Amendment of s 20 (Delegation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
52 Amendment of s 21 (Appointment of insurance manager) . . . . . . 47
53 Insertion of new pt 2, div 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Division 7 Other provisions
29 Authority may enter into work performance
arrangements .......................... 48
54 Insertion of new pt 2A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Part 2A Queensland Building Services Employing
Office
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office
29A Establishment of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
29B Employing office represents the State . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
29C Functions of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Division 2 Executive officer
29D Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
29E Executive officer acting for employing office. . . . . . . . 50
Division 3 Staff of employing office
29F Employing office may employ staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
29G Employing office may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Division 4 Other provisions
29H Employing office is statutory body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
55 Amendment of s 104 (Appointment of inspectors) . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
56 Amendment of s 108 (Obligation of assessment manager) . . . . . 52
57 Amendment of s 114 (Protection). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
58 Insertion of new sch 1, pt 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Part 7 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
29 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 53
30 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
59 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Part 7 Amendment of Queensland Museum Act 1970
60 Act amended in pt 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
61 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
62 Amendment of s 16 (Restrictions on powers of board) . . . . . . . . 56
63 Amendment of s 17 (Persons having dealings with board etc.) . . 56
64 Amendment of s 34 (Delegation by board). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
65 Amendment of pt 2, div 5 hdg (Director and staff) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
66 Amendment of s 35 (Director and other officers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
67 Amendment of s 39 (Delegation by director) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
68 Relocation and renumbering of s 40 (Superannuation schemes) 58
69 Omission of s 41 (Employees) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
70 Relocation and renumbering of s 42 (Honorary assistants) . . . . . 58
71 Insertion of new pt 2, div 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Division 6 Other provisions
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42A Board may enter into work performance
arrangements ......................... 58
72 Amendment of s 57 (Protection from liability of persons acting
under the Act). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
73 Insertion of new pt 7, div 1 hdg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
74 Amendment of s 70 (Definition for pt 7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
75 Insertion of new pt 7, div 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Division 2 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
72 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 60
73 Non-application of Industrial Relations Act 1999,
s 167 ................................ 61
74 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
board ................................. 61
75 Continued application of repealed s 41 . . . . . . . . . . . 61
76 Application of Act to particular officers . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Part 8 Amendment of Residential Tenancies Act 1994
76 Act amended in pt 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
77 Amendment of s 295 (Duration of appointment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
78 Insertion of new s 302A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
302A Authority may enter into work performance
arrangements .......................... 63
79 Replacement of ch 8, pt 7 hdg (Staff of authority) . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
80 Omission of ch 8, pt 7, div 1 hdg (Chief executive officer) . . . . . . 64
81 Omission of ch 8, pt 7, div 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
82 Omission of ch 8, pt 7, div 3 hdg (Conflict of interest) . . . . . . . . . 64
83 Amendment, relocation and renumbering of s 311 (Disclosure
of interests). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
84 Insertion of new ch 8A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 8A Residential Tenancies Employing Office
Part 1 Establishment and functions of employing
office
309 Establishment of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
310 Employing office represents the State . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
311 Functions of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Part 2 Executive officer
311A Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
311B Executive officer acting for employing office. . . . . . . . 66
Part 3 Staff of employing office
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311C Employing office may employ staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
311D Employing office may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Part 4 Other provisions
311E Employing office is statutory body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
311F Application of Crime and Misconduct Act 2001 . . . . . 68
85 Amendment of s 319 (Protection from liability). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
86 Insertion of new ch 11, pt 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Part 4 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
351 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 69
352 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
353 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
authority ............................... 70
354 Continued application of repealed s 309 . . . . . . . . . . 71
87 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Part 9 Amendment of South Bank Corporation Act 1989
88 Act amended in pt 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
89 Amendment of long title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
90 Amendment of s 3 (Definitions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
91 Omission of s 14 (Employment of staff and consultants) . . . . . . . 73
92 Insertion of new s 31A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
31A Corporation may enter into work performance
arrangements .......................... 73
93 Insertion of new pt 4A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Part 4A South Bank Employing Office
Division 1 Establishment and functions of employing
office
31B Establishment of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
31C Employing office represents the State . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
31D Functions of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Division 2 Executive officer
31E Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
31F Executive officer acting for employing office. . . . . . . . 75
Division 3 Staff of employing office
31G Employing office may employ staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
31H Employing office may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Division 4 Other provisions
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31I Employing office is statutory body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
94 Insertion of new pt 11, div 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Division 3 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
125 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 78
126 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
127 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
128 Continued application of repealed s 14 . . . . . . . . . . . 79
95 Amendment of sch 1 (Additional provisions about members
and procedure of the board). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Part 10 Amendment of Tourism Queensland Act 1979
96 Act amended in pt 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
97 Amendment of long title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
98 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
99 Replacement of ss 16 and 17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
16 Corporation may enter into work performance
arrangements .......................... 81
100 Amendment of s 19 (Delegation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
101 Insertion of new pt 2, div 2A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Division 2A General manager
20A Appointment of general manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
102 Amendment of s 27 (Custody of seal--authentication of
documents) ..................................... 83
103 Insertion of new pt 2AA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Part 2AA Tourism Queensland Employing Office
Division 1 Establishment and functions of employing
office
29AA Establishment of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
29AB Employing office represents the State . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
29AC Functions of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Division 2 Executive officer
29AD Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
29AE Executive officer acting for employing office. . . . . . . . 84
Division 3 Staff of employing office
29AF Employing office may employ staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
29AG Employing office may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Division 4 Other provisions
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29AH Employing office is statutory body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
104 Insertion of new pt 5, div 1 hdg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
105 Insertion of new pt 5, div 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Division 2 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
38 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 87
39 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
40 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
41 Continued application of repealed s 16 . . . . . . . . . . . 89
42 Continuation in office of general manager . . . . . . . . . 89
Part 11 Amendment of Water Act 2000
106 Act amended in pt 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
107 Amendment of s 542 (Purpose of ch 4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
108 Replacement of ch 4, pt 3, div 4 (Water authority employees) . . . 90
Division 4 Work performance arrangements
584 Water authority may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
109 Amendment of s 585 (Duties and liabilities of water authority
officers) ........................................ 91
110 Amendment of s 618 (Power to grant relief) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
111 Amendment of s 619 (False or misleading information or
documents) ..................................... 92
112 Insertion of new ch 4, pt 4A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Part 4A Employing offices for water authorities
Division 1 Establishment and functions of employing
offices for water authorities
625 Establishment of employing office for water authority 93
626 Employing office for water authority represents the
State ................................. 93
627 Functions of employing office for water authority . . . . 94
Division 2 Executive officer
628 Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
629 Executive officer acting for employing office of water
authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Division 3 Staff of employing offices for water authorities
630 Employing office for water authority may employ staff 95
631 Employing office for water authority may enter into
work performance arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Division 4 Other provisions
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632 Employing office for water authority is statutory body 96
113 Replacement of s 704 (Existing employees) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
704 Existing employees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
114 Amendment of s 936 (Responsibility for acts or omissions of
representatives) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
115 Insertion of new ch 9, pt 5, div 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Division 8 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
1147 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 98
1148 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
1149 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
water authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
1150 Continued application of repealed provisions. . . . . . . 100
116 Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Part 12 Amendment of Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation
Act 2003
117 Act amended in pt 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
118 Amendment of s 337 (Regard to particular ability in
appointment of directors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
119 Amendment of s 389 (General restriction of WorkCover's
powers) ....................................... 101
120 Amendment of s 392 (Protection of persons who deal with
WorkCover) ..................................... 102
121 Amendment of s 422 (Power to grant relief) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
122 Amendment of s 423 (False or misleading information or
documents) ..................................... 102
123 Amendment of s 428 (Delegation by board). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
124 Amendment of s 445 (Delegation by chief executive officer) . . . . 103
125 Replacement of s 448 (Basis of employment generally) . . . . . . . 103
448 WorkCover may enter into work performance
arrangements .......................... 103
126 Omission of s 450 (Arrangements relating to staff) . . . . . . . . . . . 104
127 Amendment of s 466 (Appointment of authorised persons) . . . . . 104
128 Insertion of new ch 8A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Chapter 8A WorkCover Employing Office
Part 1 Establishment and functions of employing
office
475A Establishment of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
475B Employing office represents the State . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
475C Functions of employing office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
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Part 2 Executive officer
475D Appointment of executive officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
475E Executive officer acting for employing office. . . . . . . . 106
Part 3 Staff of employing office
475F Employing office may employ staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
475G Employing office may enter into work performance
arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Part 4 Other provisions
475H Employing office is statutory body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
129 Amendment of s 599 (Previous non-policy compensation
arrangement with State) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
130 Insertion of new ch 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Chapter 20 Transitional provisions for Statutory Bodies
Legislation Amendment Act 2007
644 Rights and entitlements of particular employees . . . . 109
645 Application of industrial instruments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
646 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of
WorkCover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
647 Continued application of repealed s 448 . . . . . . . . . . 111
131 Amendment of sch 6 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
2007
A Bill
for
An Act to amend various Acts establishing statutory bodies
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The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
Part 1 Preliminary 2
Clause 1 Short title 3
This Act may be cited as the Statutory Bodies Legislation 4
Amendment Act 2007. 5
Part 2 Amendment of Agricultural 6
College Act 2005 7
Clause 2 Act amended in pt 2 8
This part amends the Agricultural College Act 2005. 9
Clause 3 Amendment of long title 10
Long title, after `college,'-- 11
insert-- 12
`to establish the Australian Agricultural College 13
Employing Office,'. 14
Clause 4 Amendment of s 14 (Delegation by corporation) 15
(1) Section 14(1)(a) and (b)-- 16
renumber as section 14(1)(b) and (c). 17
(2) Section 14(1)-- 18
insert-- 19
`(a) an appropriately qualified employee of the employing 20
office or of another government entity who performs 21
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work for the corporation under a work performance 1
arrangement; or'. 2
Clause 5 Replacement of pt 2, div 5 (Staff of corporation) 3
Part 2, division 5-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`Division 5 Other provisions 6
`15 Corporation may enter into work performance 7
arrangements 8
`(1) The corporation may enter into, and give effect to, a work 9
performance arrangement with-- 10
(a) the employing office; or 11
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 12
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 13
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 14
arrangement. 15
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 16
for-- 17
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 18
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 19
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 20
arrangement; and 21
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 22
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 23
who is to make the payment. 24
`(4) A person performing work for the corporation under a work 25
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 26
(a) is not employed by the corporation; and 27
(b) remains an employee of the employing office, or an 28
employee of the other government entity whose 29
appropriate authority is a party to the arrangement. 30
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the corporation does 31
not have power to employ a person performing work for the 32
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corporation under a work performance arrangement entered 1
into under subsection (1).'. 2
Clause 6 Insertion of new pt 2A 3
After part 2-- 4
insert-- 5
`Part 2A Australian Agricultural College 6
Employing Office 7
`Division 1 Establishment and functions of 8
employing office 9
`16 Establishment of employing office 10
`(1) The Australian Agricultural College Employing Office is 11
established. 12
`(2) The employing office consists of-- 13
(a) the executive officer; and 14
(b) the employees of the employing office. 15
`(3) The employing office is a separate entity from the 16
corporation. 17
`17 Employing office represents the State 18
`(1) The employing office represents the State. 19
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 20
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 21
`18 Functions of employing office 22
`(1) The main functions of the employing office are-- 23
(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 24
arrangement with the corporation under which 25
employees of the employing office perform work for the 26
corporation; and 27
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(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for the 1
corporation under the work performance arrangement; 2
and 3
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 4
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 5
`(2) Also, the employing office has any other function conferred 6
on the employing office under this or another Act. 7
`(3) This section does not limit the employing office's power to 8
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 9
under section 20D with a government entity other than the 10
corporation. 11
`Division 2 Executive officer 12
`19 Appointment of executive officer 13
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office. 14
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 15
Council. 16
`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 17
under the Public Service Act 1996. 18
`20 Executive officer acting for employing office 19
`(1) The employing office acts through the executive officer. 20
`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 21
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 22
employing office. 23
`Division 3 Staff of employing office 24
`20A Employing office may employ staff 25
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, employ staff. 26
`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 27
employing office. 28
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`(3) The employing office may decide the terms of employment of 1
the employees of the employing office. 2
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 3
instrument. 4
`(5) Employees of the employing office are employed under this 5
Act and not under the Public Service Act 1996. 6
`20B Preservation of rights in relation to public service 7
employees 8
`(1) Subsection (2) applies to a person who-- 9
(a) is appointed as an employee of the employing office; 10
and 11
(b) was a public service employee immediately before 12
taking up the appointment. 13
`(2) The person is entitled to retain all existing and accruing rights 14
as if service as an employee of the employing office were a 15
continuation of service as a public service employee. 16
`(3) If a person is appointed as a public service employee and the 17
person was, immediately before taking up the appointment, an 18
employee of the employing office, the person's service as an 19
employee of the employing office under this Act must be 20
regarded as service as a public service employee. 21
`20C Secondment as employee of employing office 22
`(1) A public service employee may be seconded to the employing 23
office. 24
`(2) While seconded under this section-- 25
(a) the person is taken to be an employee of the employing 26
office; and 27
(b) the Public Service Act 1996 does not apply to the 28
person. 29
`(3) A public service employee seconded under this section -- 30
(a) is entitled to the person's existing and accruing rights as 31
if employment as an employee of the employing office 32
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were a continuation of employment as a public service 1
employee; and 2
(b) may apply for positions, and be employed, in the public 3
service as if the person were a public service employee. 4
`(4) On ending the secondment, the person's employment on 5
secondment as an employee of the employing office is taken 6
to be employment of the same nature in the public service for 7
working out the person's rights as a public service employee. 8
`(5) If the secondment ended for a reason other than misconduct, 9
the person is entitled to be employed as a public service 10
employee. 11
`(6) This section has effect despite section 20D. 12
`20D Employing office may enter into work performance 13
arrangements 14
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, enter into and give 15
effect to a work performance arrangement with-- 16
(a) the corporation; or 17
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 18
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 19
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 20
arrangement. 21
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 22
for-- 23
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 24
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 25
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 26
arrangement; and 27
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 28
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 29
who is to make the payment. 30
`(4) A person performing work for the corporation or other 31
government entity under a work performance arrangement 32
entered into under subsection (1)-- 33
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(a) is not employed by the corporation or other government 1
entity; and 2
(b) remains an employee of the employing office. 3
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the corporation or 4
another government entity does not have power to employ a 5
person performing work for the corporation or other 6
government entity under a work performance arrangement 7
entered into under subsection (1). 8
`Division 4 Other provisions 9
`20E Employing office is statutory body 10
`(1) The employing office is a statutory body under-- 11
(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 12
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 13
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 14
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 15
(a) the executive officer is taken to be the chairperson of the 16
employing office; and 17
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 18
executive officer to consider the annual financial 19
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 20
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 21
received by the employing office; and 22
(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 23
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 24
comments given to the executive officer under section 25
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 26
executive officer receives them.'. 27
Clause 7 Amendment of pt 4, div 2 hdg (Director and other staff of 28
agricultural college) 29
Part 4, division 2, heading, `and other staff'-- 30
omit. 31
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Clause 8 Amendment of s 37 (Director and other staff) 1
(1) Section 37, heading, `and other staff'-- 2
omit. 3
(2) Section 37(3)-- 4
omit. 5
(3) Section 37(4), `and other staff'-- 6
omit. 7
(4) Section 37(6), from `and other' to `college are'-- 8
omit, insert-- 9
`is'. 10
(5) Section 37(4) to (6)-- 11
renumber as section 37(3) to (5). 12
Clause 9 Amendment of s 39 (Student advisory council) 13
(1) Section 39(4), from `agricultural college staff' to `staff of the 14
agricultural college'-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`staff of the agricultural college are to elect persons who are 17
members of the staff'. 18
(2) Section 39-- 19
insert-- 20
`(6) In this section-- 21
staff, of the agricultural college, means employees of the 22
employing office or of another government entity who 23
perform work for the corporation, being work for the 24
agricultural college, under a work performance arrangement.'. 25
Clause 10 Insertion of new pt 6, div 3 26
Part 6-- 27
insert-- 28
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`Division 3 Transitional provisions for Statutory 1
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 2
2007 3
`60 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 4
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 5
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office; and 6
(b) was an employee of the corporation-- 7
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 8
section; and 9
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 10
employing office. 11
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office, the person 12
is taken to be employed under section 20A on the conditions 13
on which the person would have been employed by the 14
corporation, immediately before the person became an 15
employee of the employing office, if the corporation had 16
never become an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 17
1996 (Cwlth). 18
`(3) Also-- 19
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 20
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 21
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 22
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 23
employee of the corporation; and 24
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the corporation 25
had never become an employer under the 26
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 27
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 28
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 29
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 30
and 31
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 32
affected. 33
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`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 1
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 2
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 3
employment of the person by the employing office is a 4
continuation of employment of the person by the corporation. 5
`(5) If the person was a seconded employee immediately before 6
becoming an employee of the employing office, the 7
arrangement under which the person was performing work for 8
a government entity other than the corporation may continue 9
until the arrangement ends, and, if the arrangement does 10
continue-- 11
(a) subsection (2) does not apply to the person; and 12
(b) on the ending of the arrangement, the person is taken to 13
be employed under section 20A on the conditions on 14
which the person would have been employed by the 15
corporation, on the ending of the arrangement, if-- 16
(i) the person had continued to be an employee of the 17
corporation; and 18
(ii) the corporation had never become an employer 19
under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 20
`(6) Subsections (2) and (5)(b) do not limit section 20A(3) and (4). 21
`(7) In this section-- 22
employee of the corporation includes a seconded employee. 23
seconded employee means an employee of the corporation 24
performing work for another government entity under an 25
arrangement entered into, before the commencement of this 26
section, by the corporation with the appropriate authority of 27
the other government entity. 28
`61 Application of industrial instruments 29
`The employing office is taken to be bound by the industrial 30
instruments that bound the corporation immediately before it 31
became an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 32
(Cwlth). 33
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`62 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 1
corporation 2
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 3
2007, part 2, affects the powers of the corporation under 4
section 7. 5
`63 Continued application of repealed provisions 6
`(1) Part 2, division 5,1 as in force immediately before the 7
commencement of this section (the repealed division), 8
continues to apply in relation to persons employed by the 9
corporation under the repealed division immediately before 10
the commencement while that employment continues. 11
`(2) Also, section 19 of the repealed division continues to apply to 12
those persons on the ending of their employment by the 13
corporation. 14
`(3) Section 37,2 as in force immediately before the 15
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 16
to persons employed by the corporation under repealed 17
section 37(3) immediately before the commencement while 18
that employment continues. 19
`(4) This section does not limit section 62.'. 20
Clause 11 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) 21
Schedule 2-- 22
insert-- 23
`employee of the employing office see section 20A(2). 24
employing office means the Australian Agricultural College 25
Employing Office established under section 16. 26
executive officer means the executive officer of the employing 27
office appointed under section 19. 28
1 Part 2 (Australian Agricultural College Corporation), division 5 (Staff of
corporation)
2 Section 37 (Director and other staff)
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government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 1
21. 2
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 3
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 4
another government entity.'. 5
Part 3 Amendment of Libraries Act 6
1988 7
Clause 12 Act amended in pt 3 8
This part amends the Libraries Act 1988. 9
Clause 13 Amendment of s 2 (Interpretation) 10
Section 2(1)-- 11
insert-- 12
`commencement, for part 10, division 1, see section 88. 13
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 14
21. 15
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 16
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 17
another government entity.'. 18
Clause 14 Amendment of pt 2, div 2 hdg (State librarian and staff) 19
Part 2, division 2, heading, `and staff'-- 20
omit. 21
Clause 15 Amendment of s 13 (State librarian and other officers) 22
(1) Section 13, heading-- 23
omit, insert-- 24
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`13 Appointment of State librarian'. 1
(2) Section 13(3)-- 2
omit. 3
Clause 16 Amendment of s 17 (Delegation by State librarian) 4
Section 17(1), from `to an'-- 5
omit, insert-- 6
`to-- 7
(a) an appropriately qualified employee of a department or 8
another government entity performing work for the 9
board under a work performance arrangement; or 10
(b) an appropriately qualified employee of the board.'. 11
Clause 17 Omission of s 18 (Employees) 12
Section 18-- 13
omit. 14
Clause 18 Relocation and renumbering of s 19 (Superannuation 15
schemes) 16
Section 19-- 17
relocate and renumber, in part 2, division 6 as inserted by 18
section 23 of this Act, as section 40B. 19
Clause 19 Amendment of s 20 (Functions of board) 20
Section 20(1)(f)-- 21
omit, insert-- 22
`(f) to supervise in their duties all persons-- 23
(i) performing work for the board under a work 24
performance arrangement; or 25
(ii) appointed or employed under this Act;'. 26
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Clause 20 Amendment of s 24 (Restrictions on powers of board) 1
Section 24(8), definition officer, paragraph (c)-- 2
omit, insert-- 3
`(c) an employee of a department or another government 4
entity performing work for the board under a work 5
performance arrangement; or'. 6
Clause 21 Amendment of s 25 (Persons having dealings with board 7
etc.) 8
Section 25(6), definition officer, paragraph (c)-- 9
omit, insert-- 10
`(c) an employee of a department or another government 11
entity performing work for the board under a work 12
performance arrangement; or'. 13
Clause 22 Amendment of s 40 (Delegation by board) 14
Section 40(d)-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`(d) an appropriately qualified employee of a department or 17
another government entity performing work for the 18
board under a work performance arrangement; or 19
(e) an appropriately qualified employee of the board.'. 20
Clause 23 Insertion of new pt 2, div 6 21
Part 2-- 22
insert-- 23
`Division 6 Other provisions 24
`40A Board may enter into work performance 25
arrangements 26
`(1) The board may enter into, and give effect to, a work 27
performance arrangement with-- 28
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(a) the chief executive of a department; or 1
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 2
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 3
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 4
arrangement. 5
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 6
for-- 7
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 8
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 9
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 10
arrangement; and 11
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 12
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 13
who is to make the payment. 14
`(4) A person performing work for the board under a work 15
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 16
(a) is not employed by the board; and 17
(b) remains an employee of the department or other 18
government entity whose appropriate authority is a party 19
to the arrangement. 20
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the board does not 21
have power to employ a person performing work for the board 22
under a work performance arrangement entered into under 23
subsection (1).'. 24
Clause 24 Amendment of s 81 (Inspection of material or receptacle 25
brought onto board's premises) 26
(1) Section 81(2) to (5), `or employee'-- 27
omit. 28
(2) Section 81(5)-- 29
insert-- 30
`officer, of the board, means-- 31
(a) the State librarian; or 32
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(b) an employee of a department or another government 1
entity performing work for the board under a work 2
performance arrangement; or 3
(c) an employee of the board.'. 4
Clause 25 Insertion of new pt 10, div 1 hdg 5
Part 10, before section 88-- 6
insert-- 7
`Division 1 Transitional provisions for Arts 8
Legislation Amendment Act 2003'. 9
Clause 26 Amendment of s 88 (Definition for pt 10) 10
(1) Section 88, heading, `pt 10'-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`div 1'. 13
(2) Section 88, `part'-- 14
omit, insert-- 15
`division'. 16
Clause 27 Insertion of new pt 10, div 2 17
Part 10-- 18
insert-- 19
`Division 2 Transitional provisions for Statutory 20
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 21
2007 22
`90 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 23
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 24
(a) becomes a public service employee; and 25
(b) was an employee of the board-- 26
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(i) immediately before the commencement of this 1
section; and 2
(ii) immediately before becoming a public service 3
employee. 4
`(2) On becoming a public service employee-- 5
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 6
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 7
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 8
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 9
employee of the board; and 10
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the board had 11
never become an employer under the Workplace 12
Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 13
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 14
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 15
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 16
and 17
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 18
affected. 19
`(3) Without limiting subsection (2), for working out the person's 20
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 21
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 22
employment of the person as a public service employee is a 23
continuation of employment of the person by the board. 24
`91 Non-application of Industrial Relations Act 1999, 25
s 167 26
`For the purpose of the Industrial Relations Act 1999, section 27
167,3 a department or public service office does not become 28
the successor of any part of the business of the board only 29
because the department or public service office becomes the 30
employer of persons previously employed by the board. 31
3 Industrial Relations Act 1999, section 167 (Successor employers bound)
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`92 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 1
board 2
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 3
2007, part 3, affects the powers of the board under section 22. 4
`93 Continued application of repealed s 18 5
`(1) Section 18, as in force immediately before the
4
6
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 7
to persons employed by the board under the section 8
immediately before the commencement while that 9
employment continues. 10
`(2) This section does not limit section 92. 11
`94 Application of Act to particular officers 12
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 13
(a) immediately before the commencement of this section, 14
was an officer mentioned in section 13(3) as in force 15
immediately before that commencement; and 16
(b) on the commencement, continues to perform work for 17
the board. 18
`(2) For sections 17, 20, 24, 25, 40 and 81, until the chief executive 19
of the department enters into a work performance 20
arrangement with the board the person is taken to be an 21
employee of a department or other government entity 22
performing work for the board under a work performance 23
arrangement. 24
`(3) If, immediately before the commencement of this section, a 25
delegation of a power to the person was in force under section 26
17 or 40, as the section was in force immediately before the 27
commencement, the delegation continues in force until it is 28
revoked.'. 29
4 Section 18 (Employees)
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Part 4 Amendment of Major Sports 1
Facilities Act 2001 2
Clause 28 Act amended in pt 4 3
This part amends the Major Sports Facilities Act 2001. 4
Clause 29 Insertion of new s 25A 5
Part 3, division 5-- 6
insert-- 7
`25A Authority may enter into work performance 8
arrangements 9
`(1) The Authority may enter into, and give effect to, a work 10
performance arrangement with-- 11
(a) the employing office; or 12
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 13
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 14
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 15
arrangement. 16
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 17
for-- 18
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 19
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 20
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 21
arrangement; and 22
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 23
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 24
who is to make the payment. 25
`(4) A person performing work for the Authority under a work 26
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 27
(a) is not employed by the Authority; and 28
(b) remains an employee of the employing office, or an 29
employee of the other government entity whose 30
appropriate authority is a party to the arrangement. 31
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`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the Authority does not 1
have power to employ a person performing work for the 2
Authority under a work performance arrangement entered into 3
under subsection (1).'. 4
Clause 30 Amendment of s 30 (Delegations) 5
(1) Section 30(1)(b)-- 6
renumber as section 30(1)(c). 7
(2) Section 30(1)-- 8
insert-- 9
`(b) an appropriately qualified employee of the employing 10
office or of another government entity who performs 11
work for the Authority under a work performance 12
arrangement; or'. 13
(3) Section 30(2), definition appropriately qualified, example, 14
`the Authority'-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`an entity'. 17
Clause 31 Insertion of new pt 3A 18
After part 3-- 19
insert-- 20
`Part 3A Major Sports Facilities 21
Employing Office 22
`Division 1 Establishment and functions of 23
employing office 24
`30AA Establishment of employing office 25
`(1) The Major Sports Facilities Employing Office is established. 26
`(2) The employing office consists of-- 27
(a) the executive officer; and 28
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(b) the employees of the employing office. 1
`(3) The employing office is a separate entity from the Authority. 2
`30AB Employing office represents the State 3
`(1) The employing office represents the State. 4
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 5
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 6
`30AC Functions of employing office 7
`(1) The main functions of the employing office are-- 8
(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 9
arrangement with the Authority under which employees 10
of the employing office perform work for the Authority; 11
and 12
(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for the 13
Authority under the work performance arrangement; 14
and 15
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 16
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 17
`(2) Also, the employing office has any other function conferred 18
on the employing office under this or another Act. 19
`(3) This section does not limit the employing office's power to 20
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 21
under section 30AG with a government entity other than the 22
Authority. 23
`Division 2 Executive officer 24
`30AD Appointment of executive officer 25
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office. 26
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 27
Council. 28
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`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 1
under the Public Service Act 1996. 2
`30AE Executive officer acting for employing office 3
`(1) The employing office acts through the executive officer. 4
`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 5
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 6
employing office. 7
`Division 3 Staff of employing office 8
`30AF Employing office may employ staff 9
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, employ staff. 10
`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 11
employing office. 12
`(3) The employing office may decide the terms of employment of 13
the employees of the employing office. 14
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 15
instrument. 16
`(5) Employees of the employing office are employed under this 17
Act and not under the Public Service Act 1996. 18
`30AG Employing office may enter into work performance 19
arrangements 20
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, enter into and give 21
effect to a work performance arrangement with-- 22
(a) the Authority; or 23
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 24
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 25
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 26
arrangement. 27
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 28
for-- 29
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(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 1
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 2
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 3
arrangement; and 4
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 5
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 6
who is to make the payment. 7
`(4) A person performing work for the Authority or other 8
government entity under a work performance arrangement 9
entered into under subsection (1)-- 10
(a) is not employed by the Authority or other government 11
entity; and 12
(b) remains an employee of the employing office. 13
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the Authority or 14
another government entity does not have power to employ a 15
person performing work for the Authority or other 16
government entity under a work performance arrangement 17
entered into under subsection (1). 18
`Division 4 Other provisions 19
`30AH Employing office is statutory body 20
`(1) The employing office is a statutory body under-- 21
(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 22
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 23
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 24
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 25
(a) the executive officer is taken to be the chairperson of the 26
employing office; and 27
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 28
executive officer to consider the annual financial 29
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 30
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 31
received by the employing office; and 32
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(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 1
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 2
comments given to the executive officer under section 3
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 4
executive officer receives them.'. 5
Clause 32 Insertion of new pt 6, div 6 6
Part 6-- 7
insert-- 8
`Division 6 Transitional provisions for Statutory 9
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 10
2007 11
`80 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 12
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 13
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office; and 14
(b) was an employee of the Authority-- 15
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 16
section; and 17
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 18
employing office. 19
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office, the person 20
is taken to be employed under section 30AF on the conditions 21
on which the person would have been employed by the 22
Authority, immediately before the person became an 23
employee of the employing office, if the Authority had never 24
become an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 25
(Cwlth). 26
`(3) Also-- 27
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 28
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 29
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 30
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 31
employee of the Authority; and 32
s 32 38 s 32
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(ii) would have accrued to the person if the Authority 1
had never become an employer under the 2
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 3
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 4
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 5
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 6
and 7
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 8
affected. 9
`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 10
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 11
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 12
employment of the person by the employing office is a 13
continuation of employment of the person by the Authority. 14
`(5) If the person was a seconded employee immediately before 15
becoming an employee of the employing office, the 16
arrangement under which the person was performing work for 17
a government entity other than the Authority may continue 18
until the arrangement ends, and, if the arrangement does 19
continue-- 20
(a) subsection (2) does not apply to the person; and 21
(b) on the ending of the arrangement, the person is taken to 22
be employed under section 30AF on the conditions on 23
which the person would have been employed by the 24
Authority, on the ending of the arrangement, if-- 25
(i) the person had continued to be an employee of the 26
Authority; and 27
(ii) the Authority had never become an employer under 28
the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 29
`(6) Subsections (2) and (5)(b) do not limit section 30AF(3) and 30
(4). 31
`(7) In this section-- 32
employee of the Authority includes a seconded employee. 33
seconded employee means an employee of the Authority 34
performing work for another government entity under an 35
arrangement entered into, before the commencement of this 36
s 33 39 s 34
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section, by the Authority with the appropriate authority of the 1
other government entity. 2
`81 Application of industrial instruments 3
`The employing office is taken to be bound by the industrial 4
instruments that bound the Authority immediately before it 5
became an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 6
(Cwlth).'. 7
Clause 33 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) 8
Schedule 2-- 9
insert-- 10
`employee of the employing office see section 30AF(2). 11
employing office means the Major Sports Facilities 12
Employing Office established under section 30AA. 13
executive officer means the executive officer of the employing 14
office appointed under section 30AD. 15
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 16
21. 17
industrial instrument see the Industrial Relations Act 1999, 18
schedule 5. 19
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 20
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 21
another government entity.'. 22
Part 5 Amendment of Queensland Art 23
Gallery Act 1987 24
Clause 34 Act amended in pt 5 25
This part amends the Queensland Art Gallery Act 1987. 26
s 35 40 s 39
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Clause 35 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) 1
Section 2-- 2
insert-- 3
`commencement, for part 7, division 1, see section 69. 4
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 5
21. 6
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 7
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 8
another government entity.'. 9
Clause 36 Amendment of pt 2, div 2 hdg (Director and staff) 10
Part 2, division 2, heading, `and staff'-- 11
omit. 12
Clause 37 Amendment of s 12 (Director and other officers) 13
(1) Section 12, heading-- 14
omit, insert-- 15
`12 Appointment of director'. 16
(2) Section 12(3)-- 17
omit. 18
Clause 38 Omission of s 13 (Employees) 19
Section 13-- 20
omit. 21
Clause 39 Amendment of s 17 (Delegation by director) 22
Section 17(1), from `to an'-- 23
omit, insert-- 24
`to-- 25
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(a) an appropriately qualified employee of a department or 1
another government entity performing work for the 2
board under a work performance arrangement; or 3
(b) an appropriately qualified employee of the board.'. 4
Clause 40 Relocation and renumbering of s 18 (Superannuation 5
schemes) 6
Section 18-- 7
relocate and renumber, in part 2, division 6 as inserted by 8
section 44 of this Act, as section 40B. 9
Clause 41 Amendment of s 23 (Restrictions on powers of board) 10
Section 23(8), definition officer, paragraph (c)-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`(c) an employee of a department or another government 13
entity performing work for the board under a work 14
performance arrangement; or'. 15
Clause 42 Amendment of s 24 (Persons having dealings with board 16
etc.) 17
Section 24(6), definition officer, paragraph (c)-- 18
omit, insert-- 19
`(c) an employee of a department or another government 20
entity performing work for the board under a work 21
performance arrangement; or'. 22
Clause 43 Amendment of s 40 (Delegation by board) 23
Section 40(d)-- 24
omit, insert-- 25
`(d) an appropriately qualified employee of a department or 26
another government entity performing work for the 27
board under a work performance arrangement; or 28
(e) an appropriately qualified employee of the board.'. 29
s 44 42 s 44
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Clause 44 Insertion of new pt 2, div 6 1
Part 2-- 2
insert-- 3
`Division 6 Other provisions 4
`40A Board may enter into work performance 5
arrangements 6
`(1) The board may enter into, and give effect to, a work 7
performance arrangement with-- 8
(a) the chief executive of a department; or 9
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 10
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 11
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 12
arrangement. 13
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 14
for-- 15
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 16
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 17
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 18
arrangement; and 19
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 20
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 21
who is to make the payment. 22
`(4) A person performing work for the board under a work 23
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 24
(a) is not employed by the board; and 25
(b) remains an employee of the department or other 26
government entity whose appropriate authority is a party 27
to the arrangement. 28
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the board does not 29
have power to employ a person performing work for the board 30
under a work performance arrangement entered into under 31
subsection (1).'. 32
s 45 43 s 48
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Clause 45 Amendment of s 52 (Monitoring and assessment of 1
board) 2
(1) Section 52(1), from `an appropriately' to `another 3
appropriately qualified person'-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`an appropriate person'. 6
(2) Section 52-- 7
insert-- 8
`(6) In this section-- 9
appropriate person means an appropriately qualified officer 10
of the department, or another appropriately qualified person, 11
other than an employee of a department or another 12
government entity performing work for the board under a 13
work performance arrangement.'. 14
Clause 46 Insertion of new pt 7, div 1 hdg 15
Part 7, before section 69-- 16
insert-- 17
`Division 1 Transitional provisions for Arts 18
Legislation Amendment Act 2003'. 19
Clause 47 Amendment of s 69 (Definition for pt 7) 20
(1) Section 69, heading, `pt 7'-- 21
omit, insert-- 22
`div 1'. 23
(2) Section 69, `part'-- 24
omit, insert-- 25
`division'. 26
Clause 48 Insertion of new pt 7, div 2 27
Part 7-- 28
insert-- 29
s 48 44 s 48
Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Bill 2007
`Division 2 Transitional provisions for Statutory 1
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 2
2007 3
`71 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 4
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 5
(a) becomes a public service employee; and 6
(b) was an employee of the board-- 7
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 8
section; and 9
(ii) immediately before becoming a public service 10
employee. 11
`(2) On becoming a public service employee-- 12
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 13
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 14
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 15
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 16
employee of the board; and 17
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the board had 18
never become an employer under the Workplace 19
Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 20
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 21
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 22
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 23
and 24
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 25
affected. 26
`(3) Without limiting subsection (2), for working out the person's 27
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 28
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 29
employment of the person as a public service employee is a 30
continuation of employment of the person by the board. 31
s 48 45 s 48
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`72 Non-application of Industrial Relations Act 1999, 1
s 167 2
`For the purpose of the Industrial Relations Act 1999, section 3
167,5 a department or public service office does not become 4
the successor of any part of the business of the board only 5
because the department or public service office becomes the 6
employer of persons previously employed by the board. 7
`73 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 8
board 9
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 10
2007, part 5, affects the powers of the board under section 21. 11
`74 Continued application of repealed s 13 12
`(1) Section 13, as in force immediately before the
6
13
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 14
to persons employed by the board under the section 15
immediately before the commencement while that 16
employment continues. 17
`(2) This section does not limit section 73. 18
`75 Application of Act to particular officers 19
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 20
(a) immediately before the commencement of this section, 21
was an officer mentioned in section 12(3) as in force 22
immediately before that commencement; and 23
(b) on the commencement, continues to perform work for 24
the board. 25
`(2) For sections 17, 23, 24, 40 and 52, until the chief executive of 26
the department enters into a work performance arrangement 27
with the board the person is taken to be an employee of a 28
department or other government entity performing work for 29
the board under a work performance arrangement. 30
5 Industrial Relations Act 1999, section 167 (Successor employers bound)
6 Section 13 (Employees)
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`(3) If, immediately before the commencement of this section, a 1
delegation of a power to the person was in force under section 2
17 or 40, as the section was in force immediately before the 3
commencement, the delegation continues in force until it is 4
revoked.'. 5
Part 6 Amendment of Queensland 6
Building Services Authority Act 7
1991 8
Clause 49 Act amended in pt 6 9
This part amends the Queensland Building Services Authority 10
Act 1991. 11
Clause 50 Amendment of s 10A (Appointment of members) 12
Section 10A(3)(b)-- 13
omit, insert-- 14
`(b) the member becomes a relevant officer or contractor of 15
the authority; or'. 16
Clause 51 Amendment of s 20 (Delegation) 17
(1) Section 20, from `to'-- 18
omit, insert-- 19
`to an appropriately qualified relevant officer of the 20
authority.'. 21
(2) Section 20-- 22
insert-- 23
`(2) In this section-- 24
appropriately qualified includes having the qualifications, 25
experience or standing appropriate to exercise the power. 26
s 52 47 s 53
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Example of standing-- 1
a person's seniority level in an entity'. 2
Clause 52 Amendment of s 21 (Appointment of insurance manager) 3
(1) Section 21(1)-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`(1) There is to be an insurance manager of the authority. 6
`(1A) The authority must-- 7
(a) appoint an individual to be the insurance manager; or 8
(b) enter into a work performance arrangement under which 9
an employee of the employing office or of another 10
government entity holds office as the insurance 11
manager.'. 12
(2) Section 21(2), `The'-- 13
omit, insert-- 14
`If the authority appoints a person to be the insurance manager 15
under subsection (2)(a), the'. 16
(3) Section 21(3), after `person to act'-- 17
insert-- 18
`, or enter into a work performance arrangement under which 19
an employee of the employing office or of another 20
government entity acts,'. 21
(4) Section 21(1A) to (3)-- 22
renumber as section 21(2) to (4). 23
Clause 53 Insertion of new pt 2, div 7 24
Part 2-- 25
insert-- 26
s 54 48 s 54
Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Bill 2007
`Division 7 Other provisions 1
`29 Authority may enter into work performance 2
arrangements 3
`(1) The authority may enter into, and give effect to, a work 4
performance arrangement with-- 5
(a) the employing office; or 6
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 7
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 8
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 9
arrangement. 10
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 11
for-- 12
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 13
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 14
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 15
arrangement; and 16
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 17
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 18
who is to make the payment. 19
`(4) A person performing work for the authority under a work 20
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 21
(a) is not employed by the authority; and 22
(b) remains an employee of the employing office, or an 23
employee of the other government entity whose 24
appropriate authority is a party to the arrangement. 25
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the authority does not 26
have power to employ a person performing work for the 27
authority under a work performance arrangement entered into 28
under subsection (1).'. 29
Clause 54 Insertion of new pt 2A 30
After part 2-- 31
insert-- 32
s 54 49 s 54
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`Part 2A Queensland Building Services 1
Employing Office 2
`Division 1 Establishment and functions of 3
employing office 4
`29A Establishment of employing office 5
`(1) The Queensland Building Services Employing Office is 6
established. 7
`(2) The employing office consists of-- 8
(a) the executive officer; and 9
(b) the employees of the employing office. 10
`(3) The employing office is a separate entity from the authority. 11
`29B Employing office represents the State 12
`(1) The employing office represents the State. 13
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 14
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 15
`29C Functions of employing office 16
`(1) The main functions of the employing office are-- 17
(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 18
arrangement with the authority under which employees 19
of the employing office perform work for the authority; 20
and 21
(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for the 22
authority under the work performance arrangement; and 23
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 24
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 25
`(2) Also, the employing office has any other function conferred 26
on the employing office under this or another Act. 27
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`(3) This section does not limit the employing office's power to 1
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 2
under section 29G with a government entity other than the 3
authority. 4
`Division 2 Executive officer 5
`29D Appointment of executive officer 6
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office. 7
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 8
Council. 9
`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 10
under the Public Service Act 1996. 11
`29E Executive officer acting for employing office 12
`(1) The employing office acts through the executive officer. 13
`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 14
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 15
employing office. 16
`Division 3 Staff of employing office 17
`29F Employing office may employ staff 18
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, employ staff. 19
`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 20
employing office. 21
`(3) The employing office may decide the terms of employment of 22
the employees of the employing office. 23
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 24
instrument. 25
`(5) Employees of the employing office are employed under this 26
Act and not under the Public Service Act 1996. 27
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`29G Employing office may enter into work performance 1
arrangements 2
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, enter into and give 3
effect to a work performance arrangement with-- 4
(a) the authority; or 5
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 6
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 7
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 8
arrangement. 9
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 10
for-- 11
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 12
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 13
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 14
arrangement; and 15
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 16
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 17
who is to make the payment. 18
`(4) A person performing work for the authority or other 19
government entity under a work performance arrangement 20
entered into under subsection (1)-- 21
(a) is not employed by the authority or other government 22
entity; and 23
(b) remains an employee of the employing office. 24
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the authority or 25
another government entity does not have power to employ a 26
person performing work for the authority or other government 27
entity under a work performance arrangement entered into 28
under subsection (1). 29
`Division 4 Other provisions 30
`29H Employing office is statutory body 31
`(1) The employing office is a statutory body under-- 32
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(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 1
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 2
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 3
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 4
(a) the executive officer is taken to be the chairperson of the 5
employing office; and 6
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 7
executive officer to consider the annual financial 8
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 9
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 10
received by the employing office; and 11
(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 12
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 13
comments given to the executive officer under section 14
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 15
executive officer receives them.'. 16
Clause 55 Amendment of s 104 (Appointment of inspectors) 17
Section 104(1), after `appoint'-- 18
insert-- 19
`relevant officers of the authority as'. 20
Clause 56 Amendment of s 108 (Obligation of assessment manager) 21
Section 108, from `an inspector' to `employee'-- 22
omit, insert-- 23
`a relevant officer'. 24
Clause 57 Amendment of s 114 (Protection) 25
Section 114(1), `an officer or employee'-- 26
omit, insert-- 27
`a relevant officer'. 28
s 58 53 s 58
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Clause 58 Insertion of new sch 1, pt 7 1
Schedule 1-- 2
insert-- 3
`Part 7 Transitional provisions for 4
Statutory Bodies Legislation 5
Amendment Act 2007 6
`29 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 7
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 8
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office; and 9
(b) was an employee of the authority-- 10
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 11
section; and 12
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 13
employing office. 14
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office, the person 15
is taken to be employed under section 29F of the Act on the 16
conditions on which the person would have been employed by 17
the authority, immediately before the person became an 18
employee of the employing office, if the authority had never 19
become an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 20
(Cwlth). 21
`(3) Also-- 22
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 23
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 24
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 25
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 26
employee of the authority; and 27
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the authority 28
had never become an employer under the 29
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 30
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 31
s 58 54 s 58
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(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 1
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 2
and 3
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 4
affected. 5
`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 6
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 7
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 8
employment of the person by the employing office is a 9
continuation of employment of the person by the authority. 10
`(5) If the person was a seconded employee immediately before 11
becoming an employee of the employing office, the 12
arrangement under which the person was performing work for 13
a government entity other than the authority may continue 14
until the arrangement ends, and, if the arrangement does 15
continue-- 16
(a) subsection (2) does not apply to the person; and 17
(b) on the ending of the arrangement, the person is taken to 18
be employed under section 29F of the Act on the 19
conditions on which the person would have been 20
employed by the authority, on the ending of the 21
arrangement, if-- 22
(i) the person had continued to be an employee of the 23
authority; and 24
(ii) the authority had never become an employer under 25
the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 26
`(6) Subsections (2) and (5)(b) do not limit section 29F(3) and (4) 27
of the Act. 28
`(7) In this section-- 29
employee of the authority includes a seconded employee. 30
seconded employee means an employee of the authority 31
performing work for another government entity under an 32
arrangement entered into, before the commencement of this 33
section, by the authority with the appropriate authority of the 34
other government entity. 35
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`30 Application of industrial instruments 1
`The employing office is taken to be bound by the industrial 2
instruments that bound the authority immediately before it 3
became an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 4
(Cwlth).'. 5
Clause 59 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) 6
Schedule 2-- 7
insert-- 8
`employee of the employing office see section 29F(2). 9
employing office means the Queensland Building Services 10
Employing Office established under section 29A. 11
executive officer, for part 2A, means the executive officer of 12
the employing office appointed under section 29D. 13
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 14
21. 15
industrial instrument see the Industrial Relations Act 1999, 16
schedule 5. 17
relevant officer, of the authority, means-- 18
(a) an employee of the employing office or of another 19
government entity performing work for the authority 20
under a work performance arrangement; or 21
(b) an officer or employee of the authority. 22
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 23
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 24
another government entity.'. 25
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Part 7 Amendment of Queensland 1
Museum Act 1970 2
Clause 60 Act amended in pt 7 3
This part amends the Queensland Museum Act 1970. 4
Clause 61 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) 5
Section 2-- 6
insert-- 7
`commencement, for part 7, division 1, see section 70. 8
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 9
21. 10
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 11
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 12
another government entity.'. 13
Clause 62 Amendment of s 16 (Restrictions on powers of board) 14
Section 16(8), definition officer, paragraph (c)-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`(c) an employee of a department or another government 17
entity performing work for the board under a work 18
performance arrangement; or'. 19
Clause 63 Amendment of s 17 (Persons having dealings with board 20
etc.) 21
Section 17(6), definition officer, paragraph (c)-- 22
omit, insert-- 23
`(c) an employee of a department or another government 24
entity performing work for the board under a work 25
performance arrangement; or'. 26
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Clause 64 Amendment of s 34 (Delegation by board) 1
Section 34(e)-- 2
omit, insert-- 3
`(e) an appropriately qualified employee of a department or 4
another government entity performing work for the 5
board under a work performance arrangement; or 6
(f) an appropriately qualified employee of the board.'. 7
Clause 65 Amendment of pt 2, div 5 hdg (Director and staff) 8
Part 2, division 5, heading, `and staff'-- 9
omit. 10
Clause 66 Amendment of s 35 (Director and other officers) 11
(1) Section 35, heading-- 12
omit, insert-- 13
`35 Appointment of director'. 14
(2) Section 35(3)-- 15
omit. 16
Clause 67 Amendment of s 39 (Delegation by director) 17
Section 39(1), from `to an'-- 18
omit, insert-- 19
`to-- 20
(a) an appropriately qualified employee of a department or 21
another government entity performing work for the 22
board under a work performance arrangement; or 23
(b) an appropriately qualified employee of the board.'. 24
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Clause 68 Relocation and renumbering of s 40 (Superannuation 1
schemes) 2
Section 40-- 3
relocate and renumber, in part 2, division 6 as inserted by 4
section 71 of this Act, as section 42B. 5
Clause 69 Omission of s 41 (Employees) 6
Section 41-- 7
omit. 8
Clause 70 Relocation and renumbering of s 42 (Honorary 9
assistants) 10
Section 42-- 11
relocate and renumber, in part 2, division 6, as inserted by 12
section 71 of this Act, as section 42C. 13
Clause 71 Insertion of new pt 2, div 6 14
Part 2-- 15
insert-- 16
`Division 6 Other provisions 17
`42A Board may enter into work performance 18
arrangements 19
`(1) The board may enter into, and give effect to, a work 20
performance arrangement with-- 21
(a) the chief executive of a department; or 22
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 23
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 24
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 25
arrangement. 26
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 27
for-- 28
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(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 1
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 2
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 3
arrangement; and 4
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 5
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 6
who is to make the payment. 7
`(4) A person performing work for the board under a work 8
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 9
(a) is not employed by the board; and 10
(b) remains an employee of the department or other 11
government entity whose appropriate authority is a party 12
to the arrangement. 13
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the board does not 14
have power to employ a person performing work for the board 15
under a work performance arrangement entered into under 16
subsection (1).'. 17
Clause 72 Amendment of s 57 (Protection from liability of persons 18
acting under the Act) 19
Section 57(1)(c), `42'-- 20
omit, insert-- 21
`42C'. 22
Clause 73 Insertion of new pt 7, div 1 hdg 23
Part 7, before section 70-- 24
insert-- 25
s 74 60 s 75
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`Division 1 Transitional provisions for Arts 1
Legislation Amendment Act 2003'. 2
Clause 74 Amendment of s 70 (Definition for pt 7) 3
(1) Section 70, heading, `pt 7'-- 4
omit, insert-- 5
`div 1'. 6
(2) Section 70, `part'-- 7
omit, insert-- 8
`division'. 9
Clause 75 Insertion of new pt 7, div 2 10
Part 7-- 11
insert-- 12
`Division 2 Transitional provisions for Statutory 13
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 14
2007 15
`72 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 16
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 17
(a) becomes a public service employee; and 18
(b) was an employee of the board-- 19
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 20
section; and 21
(ii) immediately before becoming a public service 22
employee. 23
`(2) On becoming a public service employee-- 24
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 25
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 26
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 27
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(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 1
employee of the board; and 2
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the board had 3
never become an employer under the Workplace 4
Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 5
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 6
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 7
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 8
and 9
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 10
affected. 11
`(3) Without limiting subsection (2), for working out the person's 12
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 13
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 14
employment of the person as a public service employee is a 15
continuation of employment of the person by the board. 16
`73 Non-application of Industrial Relations Act 1999, 17
s 167 18
`For the purpose of the Industrial Relations Act 1999, section 19
167,7 a department or public service office does not become 20
the successor of any part of the business of the board only 21
because the department or public service office becomes the 22
employer of persons previously employed by the board. 23
`74 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 24
board 25
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 26
2007, part 7, affects the powers of the board under section 14. 27
`75 Continued application of repealed s 41 28
`(1) Section 41, as in force immediately before the
8
29
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 30
7 Industrial Relations Act 1999, section 167 (Successor employers bound)
8 Section 41 (Employees)
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to persons employed by the board under the section 1
immediately before the commencement while that 2
employment continues. 3
`(2) This section does not limit section 74. 4
`76 Application of Act to particular officers 5
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 6
(a) immediately before the commencement of this section, 7
was an officer mentioned in section 35(3) as in force 8
immediately before that commencement; and 9
(b) on the commencement, continues to perform work for 10
the board. 11
`(2) For sections 16, 17, 34 and 39, until the chief executive of the 12
department enters into a work performance arrangement with 13
the board the person is taken to be an employee of a 14
department or other government entity performing work for 15
the board under a work performance arrangement. 16
`(3) If, immediately before the commencement of this section, a 17
delegation of a power to the person was in force under section 18
34 or 39, as the section was in force immediately before the 19
commencement, the delegation continues in force until it is 20
revoked.'. 21
Part 8 Amendment of Residential 22
Tenancies Act 1994 23
Clause 76 Act amended in pt 8 24
This part amends the Residential Tenancies Act 1994. 25
Clause 77 Amendment of s 295 (Duration of appointment) 26
Section 295(2)(c)-- 27
omit, insert-- 28
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`(c) the director becomes-- 1
(i) an employee of the employing office or of another 2
government entity performing work for the 3
authority under a work performance arrangement; 4
or 5
(ii) an employee or contractor of the authority; or'. 6
Clause 78 Insertion of new s 302A 7
Chapter 8, part 6-- 8
insert-- 9
`302A Authority may enter into work performance 10
arrangements 11
`(1) The authority may enter into, and give effect to, a work 12
performance arrangement with-- 13
(a) the employing office; or 14
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 15
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 16
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 17
arrangement. 18
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 19
for-- 20
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 21
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 22
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 23
arrangement; and 24
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 25
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 26
who is to make the payment. 27
`(4) A person performing work for the authority under a work 28
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 29
(a) is not employed by the authority; and 30
(b) remains an employee of the employing office, or an 31
employee of the other government entity whose 32
appropriate authority is a party to the arrangement. 33
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`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the authority does not 1
have power to employ a person performing work for the 2
authority under a work performance arrangement entered into 3
under subsection (1).'. 4
Clause 79 Replacement of ch 8, pt 7 hdg (Staff of authority) 5
Chapter 8, part 7, heading-- 6
omit, insert-- 7
`Part 7 Chief executive officer'. 8
Clause 80 Omission of ch 8, pt 7, div 1 hdg (Chief executive officer) 9
Chapter 8, part 7, division 1, heading-- 10
omit. 11
Clause 81 Omission of ch 8, pt 7, div 2 12
Chapter 8, part 7, division 2-- 13
omit. 14
Clause 82 Omission of ch 8, pt 7, div 3 hdg (Conflict of interest) 15
Chapter 8, part 7, division 3, heading-- 16
omit. 17
Clause 83 Amendment, relocation and renumbering of s 311 18
(Disclosure of interests) 19
(1) Section 311(1), `an employee of the authority'-- 20
omit, insert-- 21
`a relevant employee'. 22
(2) Section 311-- 23
insert-- 24
`(3) In this section-- 25
relevant employee means-- 26
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(a) an employee of the employing office or of another 1
government entity who performs work for the authority 2
under a work performance arrangement; or 3
(b) an employee of the authority.'. 4
(3) Section 311-- 5
relocate and renumber as section 319A. 6
Clause 84 Insertion of new ch 8A 7
After chapter 8-- 8
insert-- 9
`Chapter 8A Residential Tenancies 10
Employing Office 11
`Part 1 Establishment and functions of 12
employing office 13
`309 Establishment of employing office 14
`(1) The Residential Tenancies Employing Office is established. 15
`(2) The employing office consists of-- 16
(a) the executive officer; and 17
(b) the employees of the employing office. 18
`(3) The employing office is a separate entity from the authority. 19
`310 Employing office represents the State 20
`(1) The employing office represents the State. 21
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 22
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 23
`311 Functions of employing office 24
`(1) The main functions of the employing office are-- 25
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(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 1
arrangement with the authority under which employees 2
of the employing office perform work for the authority; 3
and 4
(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for the 5
authority under the work performance arrangement; and 6
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 7
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 8
`(2) Also, the employing office has any other function conferred 9
on the employing office under this or another Act. 10
`(3) This section does not limit the employing office's power to 11
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 12
under section 311D with a government entity other than the 13
authority. 14
`Part 2 Executive officer 15
`311A Appointment of executive officer 16
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office. 17
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 18
Council. 19
`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 20
under the Public Service Act 1996. 21
`311B Executive officer acting for employing office 22
`(1) The employing office acts through the executive officer. 23
`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 24
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 25
employing office. 26
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`Part 3 Staff of employing office 1
`311C Employing office may employ staff 2
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, employ staff. 3
`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 4
employing office. 5
`(3) The employing office may decide the terms of employment of 6
the employees of the employing office. 7
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 8
instrument. 9
`(5) Employees of the employing office are employed under this 10
Act and not under the Public Service Act 1996. 11
`311D Employing office may enter into work performance 12
arrangements 13
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, enter into and give 14
effect to a work performance arrangement with-- 15
(a) the authority; or 16
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 17
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 18
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 19
arrangement. 20
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 21
for-- 22
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 23
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 24
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 25
arrangement; and 26
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 27
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 28
who is to make the payment. 29
`(4) A person performing work for the authority or other 30
government entity under a work performance arrangement 31
entered into under subsection (1)-- 32
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(a) is not employed by the authority or other government 1
entity; and 2
(b) remains an employee of the employing office. 3
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the authority or 4
another government entity does not have power to employ a 5
person performing work for the authority or other government 6
entity under a work performance arrangement entered into 7
under subsection (1). 8
`Part 4 Other provisions 9
`311E Employing office is statutory body 10
`(1) The employing office is a statutory body under-- 11
(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 12
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 13
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 14
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 15
(a) the executive officer is taken to be the chairperson of the 16
employing office; and 17
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 18
executive officer to consider the annual financial 19
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 20
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 21
received by the employing office; and 22
(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 23
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 24
comments given to the executive officer under section 25
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 26
executive officer receives them. 27
`311F Application of Crime and Misconduct Act 2001 28
`The employing office is a unit of public administration under 29
the Crime and Misconduct Act 2001.'. 30
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Clause 85 Amendment of s 319 (Protection from liability) 1
(1) Section 319(1), definition official, paragraphs (c) and (d)-- 2
renumber as paragraphs (d) and (e). 3
(2) Section 319(1), definition official-- 4
insert-- 5
`(c) an employee of the employing office or of another 6
government entity who performs work for the authority 7
under a work performance arrangement; and'. 8
Clause 86 Insertion of new ch 11, pt 4 9
Chapter 11-- 10
insert-- 11
`Part 4 Transitional provisions for 12
Statutory Bodies Legislation 13
Amendment Act 2007 14
`351 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 15
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 16
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office; and 17
(b) was an employee of the authority-- 18
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 19
section; and 20
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 21
employing office. 22
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office, the person 23
is taken to be employed under section 311C on the conditions 24
on which the person would have been employed by the 25
authority, immediately before the person became an employee 26
of the employing office, if the authority had never become an 27
employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 28
`(3) Also-- 29
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(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 1
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 2
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 3
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 4
employee of the authority; and 5
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the authority 6
had never become an employer under the 7
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 8
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 9
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 10
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 11
and 12
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 13
affected. 14
`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 15
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 16
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 17
employment of the person by the employing office is a 18
continuation of employment of the person by the authority. 19
`(5) Subsection (2) does not limit section 311C(3) and (4). 20
`352 Application of industrial instruments 21
`The employing office is taken to be bound by the industrial 22
instruments that bound the authority immediately before it 23
became an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 24
(Cwlth). 25
`353 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 26
authority 27
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 28
2007, part 8, affects the powers of the authority under section 29
290. 30
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`354 Continued application of repealed s 309 1
`(1) Section 309, as in force immediately before the
9
2
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 3
to persons employed by the authority under the section 4
immediately before the commencement while that 5
employment continues. 6
`(2) This section does not limit section 353.'. 7
Clause 87 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) 8
(1) Schedule 3, definition officer-- 9
omit. 10
(2) Schedule 3-- 11
insert-- 12
`employee of the employing office see section 311C(2). 13
employing office means the Residential Tenancies Employing 14
Office established under section 309. 15
executive officer, for chapter 8A, means the executive officer 16
of the employing office appointed under section 311A. 17
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 18
21. 19
industrial instrument see the Industrial Relations Act 1999, 20
schedule 5. 21
officer of the authority means any of the following-- 22
(a) the chief executive officer; 23
(b) an employee of the employing office or of another 24
government entity performing work for the authority 25
under a work performance arrangement; 26
(c) an employee of the authority, whether or not there is a 27
written contract of employment between the authority 28
and the employee; 29
(d) an individual performing services for the authority-- 30
9 Section 309 (Authority staff)
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(i) under a contract, other than a contract of 1
employment, between the individual and the 2
authority; or 3
(ii) under an arrangement, other than a work 4
performance arrangement, between the authority 5
and a person other than the individual. 6
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 7
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 8
another government entity.'. 9
Part 9 Amendment of South Bank 10
Corporation Act 1989 11
Clause 88 Act amended in pt 9 12
This part amends the South Bank Corporation Act 1989. 13
Clause 89 Amendment of long title 14
Long title, after `area,'-- 15
insert-- 16
`to establish the South Bank Employing Office,'. 17
Clause 90 Amendment of s 3 (Definitions) 18
Section 3-- 19
insert-- 20
`employee of the employing office see section 31G(2). 21
employing office means the South Bank Employing Office 22
established under section 31B. 23
executive officer means the executive officer of the employing 24
office appointed under section 31E. 25
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 26
21. 27
s 91 73 s 92
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industrial instrument see the Industrial Relations Act 1999, 1
schedule 5. 2
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 3
which an employee of a government entity or public agency 4
performs work for another government entity or public 5
agency.'. 6
Clause 91 Omission of s 14 (Employment of staff and consultants) 7
Section 14-- 8
omit. 9
Clause 92 Insertion of new s 31A 10
Part 4-- 11
insert-- 12
`31A Corporation may enter into work performance 13
arrangements 14
`(1) The corporation may enter into, and give effect to, a work 15
performance arrangement with-- 16
(a) the employing office; or 17
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity 18
or public agency. 19
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 20
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 21
arrangement. 22
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 23
for-- 24
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 25
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 26
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 27
arrangement; and 28
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 29
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 30
who is to make the payment. 31
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`(4) A person performing work for the corporation under a work 1
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 2
(a) is not employed by the corporation; and 3
(b) remains an employee of the employing office, or an 4
employee of the other government entity or public 5
agency whose appropriate authority is a party to the 6
arrangement. 7
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the corporation does 8
not have power to employ a person performing work for the 9
corporation under a work performance arrangement entered 10
into under subsection (1).'. 11
Clause 93 Insertion of new pt 4A 12
After part 4-- 13
insert-- 14
`Part 4A South Bank Employing Office 15
`Division 1 Establishment and functions of 16
employing office 17
`31B Establishment of employing office 18
`(1) The South Bank Employing Office is established. 19
`(2) The employing office consists of-- 20
(a) the executive officer; and 21
(b) the employees of the employing office. 22
`(3) The employing office is a separate entity from the 23
corporation. 24
`31C Employing office represents the State 25
`(1) The employing office represents the State. 26
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 27
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 28
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`31D Functions of employing office 1
`(1) The main functions of the employing office are-- 2
(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 3
arrangement with the corporation under which 4
employees of the employing office perform work for the 5
corporation; and 6
(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for the 7
corporation under the work performance arrangement; 8
and 9
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 10
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 11
`(2) Also, the employing office has any other function conferred 12
on the employing office under this or another Act. 13
`(3) This section does not limit the employing office's power to 14
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 15
under section 31H with a government entity or public agency 16
other than the corporation. 17
`Division 2 Executive officer 18
`31E Appointment of executive officer 19
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office. 20
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 21
Council. 22
`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 23
under the Public Service Act 1996. 24
`31F Executive officer acting for employing office 25
`(1) The employing office acts through the executive officer. 26
`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 27
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 28
employing office. 29
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`Division 3 Staff of employing office 1
`31G Employing office may employ staff 2
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, employ staff. 3
`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 4
employing office. 5
`(3) The employing office may decide the terms of employment of 6
the employees of the employing office. 7
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 8
instrument. 9
`(5) Employees of the employing office are employed under this 10
Act and not under the Public Service Act 1996. 11
`31H Employing office may enter into work performance 12
arrangements 13
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, enter into and give 14
effect to a work performance arrangement with-- 15
(a) the corporation; or 16
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity 17
or public agency. 18
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 19
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 20
arrangement. 21
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 22
for-- 23
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 24
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 25
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 26
arrangement; and 27
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 28
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 29
who is to make the payment. 30
s 93 77 s 93
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`(4) A person performing work for the corporation or other 1
government entity or public agency under a work performance 2
arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 3
(a) is not employed by the corporation or other government 4
entity or public agency; and 5
(b) remains an employee of the employing office. 6
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the corporation or 7
another government entity or public agency does not have 8
power to employ a person performing work for the 9
corporation or other government entity or public agency under 10
a work performance arrangement entered into under 11
subsection (1). 12
`Division 4 Other provisions 13
`31I Employing office is statutory body 14
`(1) The employing office is a statutory body under-- 15
(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 16
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 17
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 18
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 19
(a) the executive officer is taken to be the chairperson of the 20
employing office; and 21
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 22
executive officer to consider the annual financial 23
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 24
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 25
received by the employing office; and 26
(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 27
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 28
comments given to the executive officer under section 29
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 30
executive officer receives them.'. 31
s 94 78 s 94
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Clause 94 Insertion of new pt 11, div 3 1
Part 11-- 2
insert-- 3
`Division 3 Transitional provisions for Statutory 4
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 5
2007 6
`125 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 7
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 8
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office; and 9
(b) was an employee of the corporation-- 10
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 11
section; and 12
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 13
employing office. 14
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office, the person 15
is taken to be employed under section 31G on the conditions 16
on which the person would have been employed by the 17
corporation, immediately before the person became an 18
employee of the employing office, if the corporation had 19
never become an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 20
1996 (Cwlth). 21
`(3) Also-- 22
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 23
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 24
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 25
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 26
employee of the corporation; and 27
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the corporation 28
had never become an employer under the 29
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 30
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 31
s 94 79 s 94
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(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 1
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 2
and 3
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 4
affected. 5
`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 6
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 7
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 8
employment of the person by the employing office is a 9
continuation of employment of the person by the corporation. 10
`(5) Subsection (2) does not limit section 31G(3) and (4). 11
`126 Application of industrial instruments 12
`The employing office is taken to be bound by the industrial 13
instruments that bound the corporation immediately before it 14
became an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 15
(Cwlth). 16
`127 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 17
corporation 18
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 19
2007, part 9, affects the powers of the corporation under 20
section 7. 21
`128 Continued application of repealed s 14 22
`(1) Section 14, as in force immediately before the
10
23
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 24
to persons employed by the corporation immediately before 25
the commencement while that employment continues. 26
`(2) This section does not limit section 127.'. 27
10 Section 14 (Employment of staff and consultants)
s 95 80 s 98
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Clause 95 Amendment of sch 1 (Additional provisions about 1
members and procedure of the board) 2
Schedule 1, section 2(a), after `board'-- 3
insert-- 4
`, or becomes an employee of the employing office or another 5
government entity or public agency performing work for the 6
corporation, on a full-time basis, under a work performance 7
arrangement,'. 8
Part 10 Amendment of Tourism 9
Queensland Act 1979 10
Clause 96 Act amended in pt 10 11
This part amends the Tourism Queensland Act 1979. 12
Clause 97 Amendment of long title 13
Long title, after `powers'-- 14
insert-- 15
`, for the establishment of the Tourism Queensland 16
Employing Office,'. 17
Clause 98 Amendment of s 2 (Definitions) 18
Section 2-- 19
insert-- 20
`employee of the employing office see section 29AF(2). 21
employing office means the Tourism Queensland Employing 22
Office established under section 29AA. 23
executive officer means the executive officer of the employing 24
office appointed under section 29AD. 25
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 26
21. 27
s 99 81 s 99
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industrial instrument see the Industrial Relations Act 1999, 1
schedule 5. 2
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 3
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 4
another government entity.'. 5
Clause 99 Replacement of ss 16 and 17 6
Sections 16 and 17-- 7
omit, insert-- 8
`16 Corporation may enter into work performance 9
arrangements 10
`(1) The corporation may enter into, and give effect to, a work 11
performance arrangement with-- 12
(a) the employing office; or 13
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 14
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 15
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 16
arrangement. 17
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 18
for-- 19
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 20
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 21
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 22
arrangement; and 23
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 24
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 25
who is to make the payment. 26
`(4) A person performing work for the corporation under a work 27
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 28
(a) is not employed by the corporation; and 29
(b) remains an employee of the employing office, or an 30
employee of the other government entity whose 31
appropriate authority is a party to the arrangement. 32
s 100 82 s 101
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`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the corporation does 1
not have power to employ a person performing work for the 2
corporation under a work performance arrangement entered 3
into under subsection (1).'. 4
Clause 100 Amendment of s 19 (Delegation) 5
(1) Section 19(b)-- 6
omit, insert-- 7
`(b) the general manager of the corporation; or 8
(c) an appropriately qualified employee of the employing 9
office or of another government entity who performs 10
work for the corporation under a work performance 11
arrangement; or 12
(d) an appropriately qualified employee of the corporation.'. 13
(2) Section 19-- 14
insert-- 15
`(2) In this section-- 16
appropriately qualified includes having the qualifications, 17
experience or standing appropriate to exercise the power. 18
Example of standing-- 19
a person's seniority level in an entity'. 20
Clause 101 Insertion of new pt 2, div 2A 21
Part 2-- 22
insert-- 23
`Division 2A General manager 24
`20A Appointment of general manager 25
`(1) There is to be a general manager of the corporation. 26
`(2) The general manager is to be appointed by the Governor in 27
Council. 28
s 102 83 s 103
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`(3) The general manager is appointed under this Act and not 1
under the Public Service Act 1996.'. 2
Clause 102 Amendment of s 27 (Custody of seal--authentication of 3
documents) 4
Section 27(1), `an officer of the corporation'-- 5
omit, insert-- 6
`a person'. 7
Clause 103 Insertion of new pt 2AA 8
After part 2-- 9
insert-- 10
`Part 2AA Tourism Queensland 11
Employing Office 12
`Division 1 Establishment and functions of 13
employing office 14
`29AA Establishment of employing office 15
`(1) The Tourism Queensland Employing Office is established. 16
`(2) The employing office consists of-- 17
(a) the executive officer; and 18
(b) the employees of the employing office. 19
`(3) The employing office is a separate entity from the 20
corporation. 21
`29AB Employing office represents the State 22
`(1) The employing office represents the State. 23
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 24
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 25
s 103 84 s 103
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`29AC Functions of employing office 1
`(1) The main functions of the employing office are-- 2
(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 3
arrangement with the corporation under which 4
employees of the employing office perform work for the 5
corporation; and 6
(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for the 7
corporation under the work performance arrangement; 8
and 9
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 10
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 11
`(2) Also, the employing office has any other function conferred 12
on the employing office under this or another Act. 13
`(3) This section does not limit the employing office's power to 14
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 15
under section 29AG with a government entity other than the 16
corporation. 17
`Division 2 Executive officer 18
`29AD Appointment of executive officer 19
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office. 20
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 21
Council. 22
`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 23
under the Public Service Act 1996. 24
`29AE Executive officer acting for employing office 25
`(1) The employing office acts through the executive officer. 26
`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 27
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 28
employing office. 29
s 103 85 s 103
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`Division 3 Staff of employing office 1
`29AF Employing office may employ staff 2
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, employ staff. 3
`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 4
employing office. 5
`(3) The employing office may decide the terms of employment of 6
the employees of the employing office. 7
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 8
instrument. 9
`(5) Employees of the employing office are employed under this 10
Act and not under the Public Service Act 1996. 11
`29AG Employing office may enter into work performance 12
arrangements 13
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, enter into and give 14
effect to a work performance arrangement with-- 15
(a) the corporation; or 16
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 17
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 18
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 19
arrangement. 20
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 21
for-- 22
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 23
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 24
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 25
arrangement; and 26
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 27
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 28
who is to make the payment. 29
`(4) A person performing work for the corporation or other 30
government entity under a work performance arrangement 31
entered into under subsection (1)-- 32
s 104 86 s 104
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(a) is not employed by the corporation or other government 1
entity; and 2
(b) remains an employee of the employing office. 3
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that the corporation or 4
another government entity does not have power to employ a 5
person performing work for the corporation or other 6
government entity under a work performance arrangement 7
entered into under subsection (1). 8
`Division 4 Other provisions 9
`29AH Employing office is statutory body 10
`(1) The employing office is a statutory body under-- 11
(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 12
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 13
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 14
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 15
(a) the executive officer is taken to be the chairperson of the 16
employing office; and 17
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 18
executive officer to consider the annual financial 19
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 20
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 21
received by the employing office; and 22
(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 23
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 24
comments given to the executive officer under section 25
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 26
executive officer receives them.'. 27
Clause 104 Insertion of new pt 5, div 1 hdg 28
Part 5, before section 36-- 29
insert-- 30
s 105 87 s 105
Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Bill 2007
`Division 1 Transitional provisions for Tourism 1
Legislation Amendment Act 1999'. 2
Clause 105 Insertion of new pt 5, div 2 3
After section 37-- 4
insert-- 5
`Division 2 Transitional provisions for Statutory 6
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 7
2007 8
`38 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 9
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 10
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office; and 11
(b) was an employee of the corporation-- 12
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 13
section; and 14
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 15
employing office. 16
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office, the person 17
is taken to be employed under section 29AF on the conditions 18
on which the person would have been employed by the 19
corporation, immediately before the person became an 20
employee of the employing office, if the corporation had 21
never become an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 22
1996 (Cwlth). 23
`(3) Also-- 24
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 25
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 26
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 27
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 28
employee of the corporation; and 29
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the corporation 30
had never become an employer under the 31
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 32
s 105 88 s 105
Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Bill 2007
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 1
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 2
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 3
and 4
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 5
affected. 6
`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 7
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 8
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 9
employment of the person by the employing office is a 10
continuation of employment of the person by the corporation. 11
`(5) If the person was a seconded employee immediately before 12
becoming an employee of the employing office, the 13
arrangement under which the person was performing work for 14
a government entity other than the corporation may continue 15
until the arrangement ends, and, if the arrangement does 16
continue-- 17
(a) subsection (2) does not apply to the person; and 18
(b) on the ending of the arrangement, the person is taken to 19
be employed under section 29AF on the conditions on 20
which the person would have been employed by the 21
corporation, on the ending of the arrangement, if-- 22
(i) the person had continued to be an employee of the 23
corporation; and 24
(ii) the corporation had never become an employer 25
under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 26
`(6) Subsections (2) and (5)(b) do not limit section 29AF(3) and 27
(4). 28
`(7) In this section-- 29
employee of the corporation includes a seconded employee. 30
seconded employee means an employee of the corporation 31
performing work for another government entity under an 32
arrangement entered into, before the commencement of this 33
section, by the corporation with the appropriate authority of 34
the other government entity. 35
s 105 89 s 105
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`39 Application of industrial instruments 1
`The employing office is taken to be bound by the industrial 2
instruments that bound the corporation immediately before it 3
became an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 4
(Cwlth). 5
`40 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 6
corporation 7
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 8
2007, part 10, affects the powers of the corporation under 9
section 14. 10
`41 Continued application of repealed s 16 11
`(1) Section 16, as in force immediately before the
11
12
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 13
to persons employed by the corporation under that section, 14
other than the general manager of the corporation, 15
immediately before the commencement while that 16
employment continues. 17
`(2) This section does not limit section 40. 18
`42 Continuation in office of general manager 19
`(1) This section applies if a person was employed by the 20
corporation, immediately before the commencement of this 21
section, as the general manager of the corporation under 22
repealed section 16. 23
`(2) The person continues to hold office as the general manager of 24
the corporation until-- 25
(a) someone is appointed as the general manager by the 26
Governor in Council under section 20A(2); or 27
(b) if the person's employment by the corporation as the 28
general manager otherwise ends before the appointment 29
mentioned in paragraph (a)--the person's employment 30
otherwise ends. 31
11 Section 16 (Engagement and employment of staff)
s 106 90 s 108
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`(3) While the person continues to hold office under subsection 1
(2)-- 2
(a) section 20A(2) and (3) does not apply; and 3
(b) section 16, as in force immediately before the 4
commencement of this section, continues to apply in 5
relation to the person.'. 6
Part 11 Amendment of Water Act 2000 7
Clause 106 Act amended in pt 11 8
This part amends the Water Act 2000. 9
Clause 107 Amendment of s 542 (Purpose of ch 4) 10
(1) Section 542, heading, `Purpose'-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`Purposes'. 13
(2) Section 542, `The purpose'-- 14
omit, insert-- 15
`The main purpose'. 16
(3) Section 542-- 17
insert-- 18
`(2) Another purpose of this chapter is to establish the employing 19
offices for water authorities.'. 20
Clause 108 Replacement of ch 4, pt 3, div 4 (Water authority 21
employees) 22
Chapter 4, part 3, division 4-- 23
omit, insert-- 24
s 109 91 s 109
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`Division 4 Work performance arrangements 1
`584 Water authority may enter into work performance 2
arrangements 3
`(1) A water authority may enter into, and give effect to, a work 4
performance arrangement with-- 5
(a) the employing office for the water authority; or 6
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 7
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 8
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 9
arrangement. 10
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 11
for-- 12
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 13
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 14
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 15
arrangement; and 16
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 17
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 18
who is to make the payment. 19
`(4) A person performing work for a water authority under a work 20
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 21
(a) is not employed by the water authority; and 22
(b) remains an employee of the employing office for the 23
water authority, or an employee of the other government 24
entity whose appropriate authority is a party to the 25
arrangement. 26
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a water authority does 27
not have power to employ a person performing work for the 28
water authority under a work performance arrangement 29
entered into under subsection (1).'. 30
Clause 109 Amendment of s 585 (Duties and liabilities of water 31
authority officers) 32
Section 585(9), definition officer-- 33
s 110 92 s 111
Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Bill 2007
omit, insert-- 1
`officer, of a water authority, includes-- 2
(a) an employee of the water authority; and 3
(b) an employee of the employing office for the water 4
authority or of another government entity who performs 5
work for the authority under a work performance 6
arrangement between the water authority and the 7
employing office or other government entity.'. 8
Clause 110 Amendment of s 618 (Power to grant relief) 9
(1) Section 618(1), from `who is'-- 10
omit, insert-- 11
`who is-- 12
(a) an officer or employee of a water authority; or 13
(b) an employee of the employing office for a water 14
authority or of another government entity who performs 15
work for the authority under a work performance 16
arrangement between the water authority and the 17
employing office or other government entity.'. 18
(2) Section 618(2) and (4), after `water authority'-- 19
omit, insert-- 20
`or as an employee of the employing office for the water 21
authority or of the other government entity'. 22
Clause 111 Amendment of s 619 (False or misleading information or 23
documents) 24
Section 619(1), definition officer-- 25
omit, insert-- 26
`officer, of a water authority, includes-- 27
(a) an employee of the water authority; and 28
(b) an employee of the employing office for the water 29
authority or of another government entity who performs 30
work for the authority under a work performance 31
s 112 93 s 112
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arrangement between the water authority and the 1
employing office or other government entity.'. 2
Clause 112 Insertion of new ch 4, pt 4A 3
Chapter 4, after part 4-- 4
insert-- 5
`Part 4A Employing offices for water 6
authorities 7
`Division 1 Establishment and functions of 8
employing offices for water 9
authorities 10
`625 Establishment of employing office for water authority 11
`(1) A regulation may establish the employing office for a water 12
authority. 13
`(2) The regulation must name the employing office for the water 14
authority. 15
`(3) The employing office for a water authority consists of-- 16
(a) the executive officer of the employing office; and 17
(b) the employees of the employing office. 18
`(4) The employing office for a water authority is a separate entity 19
from the water authority. 20
`626 Employing office for water authority represents the 21
State 22
`(1) The employing office for a water authority represents the 23
State. 24
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 25
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 26
s 112 94 s 112
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`627 Functions of employing office for water authority 1
`(1) The main functions of the employing office for a water 2
authority are-- 3
(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 4
arrangement with the water authority under which 5
employees of the employing office perform work for the 6
authority; and 7
(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for the 8
water authority under the work performance 9
arrangement; and 10
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 11
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 12
`(2) Also, the employing office for a water authority has any other 13
function conferred on the employing office under this or 14
another Act. 15
`(3) This section does not limit the power of the employing office 16
for a water authority to enter into and give effect to a work 17
performance arrangement under section 631 with a 18
government entity other than the water authority. 19
`Division 2 Executive officer 20
`628 Appointment of executive officer 21
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office for 22
a water authority. 23
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 24
Council. 25
`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 26
under the Public Service Act 1996. 27
`629 Executive officer acting for employing office of water 28
authority 29
`(1) The employing office for a water authority acts through the 30
executive officer of the employing office. 31
s 112 95 s 112
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`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 1
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 2
employing office. 3
`Division 3 Staff of employing offices for water 4
authorities 5
`630 Employing office for water authority may employ staff 6
`(1) The employing office for a water authority may, for the State, 7
employ staff. 8
`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 9
employing office. 10
`(3) The employing office for a water authority may decide the 11
terms of employment of the employees of the employing 12
office. 13
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 14
instrument. 15
`(5) Employees of the employing office for a water authority are 16
employed under this Act and not the Public Service Act 1996. 17
`631 Employing office for water authority may enter into 18
work performance arrangements 19
`(1) The employing office for a water authority may, for the State, 20
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 21
with-- 22
(a) the water authority; or 23
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity. 24
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 25
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 26
arrangement. 27
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 28
for-- 29
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 30
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 31
s 112 96 s 112
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(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 1
arrangement; and 2
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 3
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 4
who is to make the payment. 5
`(4) A person performing work for a water authority or other 6
government entity under a work performance arrangement 7
entered into under subsection (1)-- 8
(a) is not employed by the water authority or other 9
government entity; and 10
(b) remains an employee of the employing office for the 11
water authority. 12
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that a water authority or 13
another government entity does not have power to employ a 14
person performing work for the authority or other government 15
entity under a work performance arrangement entered into 16
under subsection (1). 17
`Division 4 Other provisions 18
`632 Employing office for water authority is statutory body 19
`(1) The employing office for a water authority is a statutory body 20
under-- 21
(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 22
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 23
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 24
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 25
(a) the executive officer of the employing office is taken to 26
be the chairperson of the employing office; and 27
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 28
executive officer to consider the annual financial 29
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 30
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 31
received by the employing office; and 32
s 113 97 s 113
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(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 1
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 2
comments given to the executive officer under section 3
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 4
executive officer receives them.'. 5
Clause 113 Replacement of s 704 (Existing employees) 6
Section 704-- 7
omit, insert-- 8
`704 Existing employees 9
`(1) On the changeover day for a former water authority that is 10
amalgamated with another water authority-- 11
(a) a person who was employed by the former water 12
authority becomes an employee of the new entity; and 13
(b) a person who was employed by the employing office for 14
the former water authority becomes an employee of the 15
employing office for the new entity. 16
`(2) On the changeover day for a former water authority that is 17
converted to an alternative institutional structure-- 18
(a) a person who was employed by the former water 19
authority becomes an employee of the new entity; and 20
(b) a person who was employed by the employing office for 21
the former water authority becomes an employee of-- 22
(i) if there is an employing authority for the new 23
entity--that employing authority; or 24
(ii) otherwise--the new entity. 25
`(3) A person mentioned in subsection (1) or (2)-- 26
(a) must be employed on terms and conditions of 27
employment that are at least as favourable as the 28
person's existing terms and conditions of employment; 29
and 30
(b) remains entitled to all existing and accruing rights of 31
employment.'. 32
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Clause 114 Amendment of s 936 (Responsibility for acts or 1
omissions of representatives) 2
Section 936(4), definition representative-- 3
omit, insert-- 4
`representative means-- 5
(a) for a water authority-- 6
(i) an executive officer, employee or agent of the 7
water authority; or 8
(ii) an employee of the employing office for the water 9
authority or of another government entity who 10
performs work for the authority under a work 11
performance arrangement between the water 12
authority and the employing office or other 13
government entity; or 14
(b) for a corporation, other than a water authority--an 15
executive officer, employee or agent of the corporation; 16
or 17
(c) for an individual--an employee or agent of the 18
individual.'. 19
Clause 115 Insertion of new ch 9, pt 5, div 8 20
After section 1146-- 21
insert-- 22
`Division 8 Transitional provisions for Statutory 23
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 24
2007 25
`1147 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 26
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 27
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office for a 28
water authority; and 29
(b) was an employee of the water authority-- 30
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(i) immediately before the commencement of this 1
section; and 2
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 3
employing office. 4
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office for the 5
water authority, the person is taken to be employed under 6
section 630 on the conditions on which the person would have 7
been employed by the water authority, immediately before the 8
person became an employee of the employing office, if the 9
water authority had never become an employer under the 10
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 11
`(3) Also-- 12
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 13
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 14
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 15
(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 16
employee of the water authority; and 17
(ii) would have accrued to the person if the water 18
authority had never become an employer under the 19
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 20
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 21
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 22
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 23
and 24
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 25
affected. 26
`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 27
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 28
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 29
employment of the person by the employing office for the 30
water authority is a continuation of employment of the person 31
by the water authority. 32
`(5) Subsection (2) does not limit section 630(3) and (4). 33
s 116 100 s 116
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`1148 Application of industrial instruments 1
`The employing office for a water authority is taken to be 2
bound by the industrial instruments that bound the water 3
authority immediately before it became an employer under the 4
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 5
`1149 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 6
water authority 7
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 8
2007, part 11, affects the powers of a water authority under 9
section 550. 10
`1150 Continued application of repealed provisions 11
`(1) Chapter 4, part 3, division 4, as in force immediately before
12
12
the commencement of this section (the repealed division), 13
continues to apply in relation to persons employed by the 14
water authority under the repealed division immediately 15
before the commencement while that employment continues. 16
`(2) This section does not limit section 1149.'. 17
Clause 116 Amendment of sch 4 (Dictionary) 18
Schedule 4-- 19
insert-- 20
`employee of the employing office see section 630(2). 21
employing office, for a water authority, means the employing 22
office for the water authority established under this Act. 23
executive officer, of the employing office for a water 24
authority, means the executive officer of the employing office 25
for the water authority appointed under section 628. 26
government entity see the Public Service Act 1996, section 27
21. 28
12 Chapter 4 (Water authorities), part 3 (Functions and powers of water authorities),
division 4 (Water authority employees)
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industrial instrument see the Industrial Relations Act 1999, 1
schedule 5. 2
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 3
which an employee of a government entity performs work for 4
another government entity.'. 5
Part 12 Amendment of Workers' 6
Compensation and 7
Rehabilitation Act 2003 8
Clause 117 Act amended in pt 12 9
This part amends the Workers' Compensation and 10
Rehabilitation Act 2003. 11
Clause 118 Amendment of s 337 (Regard to particular ability in 12
appointment of directors) 13
Section 337(2)(b)(i), `or WorkCover employee'-- 14
insert-- 15
`, WorkCover employee or an employee of the employing 16
office or of another government entity or non-Queensland 17
government entity who performs work for WorkCover under a 18
work performance arrangement'. 19
Clause 119 Amendment of s 389 (General restriction of WorkCover's 20
powers) 21
Section 389(9), definition WorkCover officer-- 22
insert-- 23
`(c) an employee of the employing office or of another 24
government entity or non-Queensland government 25
entity who performs work for WorkCover under a work 26
performance arrangement.'. 27
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Clause 120 Amendment of s 392 (Protection of persons who deal 1
with WorkCover) 2
Section 392(6), definition WorkCover officer-- 3
insert-- 4
`(c) an employee of the employing office or of another 5
government entity or non-Queensland government 6
entity who performs work for WorkCover under a work 7
performance arrangement.'. 8
Clause 121 Amendment of s 422 (Power to grant relief) 9
Section 422(5), definition WorkCover officer-- 10
insert-- 11
`(c) an employee of the employing office or of another 12
government entity or non-Queensland government 13
entity who performs work for WorkCover under a work 14
performance arrangement.'. 15
Clause 122 Amendment of s 423 (False or misleading information or 16
documents) 17
Section 423(4), definition WorkCover officer-- 18
insert-- 19
`(c) an employee of the employing office or of another 20
government entity or non-Queensland government 21
entity who performs work for WorkCover under a work 22
performance arrangement.'. 23
Clause 123 Amendment of s 428 (Delegation by board) 24
(1) Section 428(1)(d), after `employee'-- 25
omit, insert-- 26
`or employee of the employing office or of another 27
government entity or non-Queensland government entity who 28
performs work for WorkCover under a work performance 29
arrangement'. 30
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(2) Section 428(2), example, after `WorkCover'-- 1
omit, insert-- 2
`, the employing office or another government entity or non-Queensland 3
government entity'. 4
Clause 124 Amendment of s 445 (Delegation by chief executive 5
officer) 6
(1) Section 445(1), after `employee'-- 7
omit, insert-- 8
`or employee of the employing office or of another 9
government entity or non-Queensland government entity who 10
performs work for WorkCover under a work performance 11
arrangement'. 12
(2) Section 445(3), example, after `WorkCover'-- 13
omit, insert-- 14
`, the employing office or another government entity or non-Queensland 15
government entity'. 16
Clause 125 Replacement of s 448 (Basis of employment generally) 17
Section 448-- 18
omit, insert-- 19
`448 WorkCover may enter into work performance 20
arrangements 21
`(1) WorkCover may enter into, and give effect to, a work 22
performance arrangement with-- 23
(a) the employing office; or 24
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity 25
or non-Queensland government entity. 26
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 27
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 28
arrangement. 29
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 30
for-- 31
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(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 1
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 2
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 3
arrangement; and 4
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 5
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 6
who is to make the payment. 7
`(4) A person performing work for WorkCover under a work 8
performance arrangement entered into under subsection (1)-- 9
(a) is not employed by WorkCover; and 10
(b) remains an employee of the employing office, or an 11
employee of the other government entity or 12
non-Queensland government entity whose appropriate 13
authority is a party to the arrangement. 14
`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that WorkCover does not 15
have power to employ a person performing work for 16
WorkCover under a work performance arrangement entered 17
into under subsection (1).'. 18
Clause 126 Omission of s 450 (Arrangements relating to staff) 19
Section 450-- 20
omit. 21
Clause 127 Amendment of s 466 (Appointment of authorised 22
persons) 23
(1) Section 466(1), after `employee'-- 24
omit, insert-- 25
`or an employee of the employing office or of another 26
government entity or non-Queensland government entity who 27
performs work for WorkCover under a work performance 28
arrangement'. 29
(2) Section 466(2), `a WorkCover employee'-- 30
omit, insert-- 31
`the person'. 32
s 128 105 s 128
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(3) Section 466(2), `the employee'-- 1
omit, insert-- 2
`the person'. 3
Clause 128 Insertion of new ch 8A 4
After chapter 8-- 5
insert-- 6
`Chapter 8A WorkCover Employing 7
Office 8
`Part 1 Establishment and functions of 9
employing office 10
`475A Establishment of employing office 11
`(1) The WorkCover Employing Office is established. 12
`(2) The employing office consists of-- 13
(a) the executive officer; and 14
(b) the employees of the employing office. 15
`(3) The employing office is a separate entity from WorkCover. 16
`475B Employing office represents the State 17
`(1) The employing office represents the State. 18
`(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the employing office has the 19
status, privileges and immunities of the State. 20
`475C Functions of employing office 21
`(1) The main functions of the employing office are-- 22
(a) entering into, for the State, a work performance 23
arrangement with WorkCover under which employees 24
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of the employing office perform work for WorkCover; 1
and 2
(b) employing, for the State, staff to perform work for 3
WorkCover under the work performance arrangement; 4
and 5
(c) doing anything incidental to the discharge of the 6
functions mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b). 7
`(2) Also, the employing office has any other function conferred 8
on the employing office under this or another Act. 9
`(3) This section does not limit the employing office's power to 10
enter into and give effect to a work performance arrangement 11
under section 475G with a government entity, other than 12
WorkCover, or a non-Queensland government entity. 13
`Part 2 Executive officer 14
`475D Appointment of executive officer 15
`(1) There is to be an executive officer of the employing office. 16
`(2) The executive officer is to be appointed by the Governor in 17
Council. 18
`(3) The executive officer is appointed under this Act and not 19
under the Public Service Act 1996. 20
`475E Executive officer acting for employing office 21
`(1) The employing office acts through the executive officer. 22
`(2) Anything done by the executive officer in the name of, or for, 23
the employing office is taken to have been done by the 24
employing office. 25
`Part 3 Staff of employing office 26
`475F Employing office may employ staff 27
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, employ staff. 28
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`(2) A person employed under subsection (1) is an employee of the 1
employing office. 2
`(3) The employing office may decide the terms of employment of 3
the employees of the employing office. 4
`(4) Subsection (3) applies subject to any relevant industrial 5
instrument. 6
`(5) Employees of the employing office are employed under this 7
Act and not under the Public Service Act 1996. 8
`475G Employing office may enter into work performance 9
arrangements 10
`(1) The employing office may, for the State, enter into and give 11
effect to a work performance arrangement with-- 12
(a) WorkCover; or 13
(b) the appropriate authority of another government entity 14
or non-Queensland government entity. 15
`(2) A work performance arrangement may make provision for all 16
matters necessary or convenient to be provided under the 17
arrangement. 18
`(3) For example, a work performance arrangement may provide 19
for-- 20
(a) the appointment of a person to an office, and the holding 21
of the office by the person, for the arrangement; and 22
(b) the authorising of a person to exercise powers for the 23
arrangement; and 24
(c) whether payment is to be made for work done under the 25
arrangement and, if so, what payment is to be made and 26
who is to make the payment. 27
`(4) A person performing work for WorkCover or other 28
government entity or non-Queensland government entity 29
under a work performance arrangement entered into under 30
subsection (1)-- 31
(a) is not employed by WorkCover or the other government 32
entity or non-Queensland government entity; and 33
(b) remains an employee of the employing office. 34
s 129 108 s 129
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`(5) To remove any doubt, it is declared that WorkCover or another 1
government entity or non-Queensland government entity does 2
not have power to employ a person performing work for 3
WorkCover or other government entity or non-Queensland 4
government entity under a work performance arrangement 5
entered into under subsection (1). 6
`Part 4 Other provisions 7
`475H Employing office is statutory body 8
`(1) The employing office is a statutory body under-- 9
(a) the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977; and 10
(b) the Statutory Bodies Financial Arrangements Act 1982. 11
`(2) For applying the Financial Administration and Audit Act 1977 12
to the employing office as a statutory body-- 13
(a) the executive officer is taken to be the chairperson of the 14
employing office; and 15
(b) section 46G(4) of that Act is taken to require the 16
executive officer to consider the annual financial 17
statements and the auditor-general's report mentioned in 18
the subsection as soon as practicable after they are 19
received by the employing office; and 20
(c) section 46H of that Act is taken to require the executive 21
officer to consider any observations, suggestions or 22
comments given to the executive officer under section 23
93(4) of that Act as soon as practicable after the 24
executive officer receives them.'. 25
Clause 129 Amendment of s 599 (Previous non-policy compensation 26
arrangement with State) 27
Section 599-- 28
insert-- 29
s 130 109 s 130
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`(3) In this section-- 1
government entity has the meaning given by this Act as in 2
force immediately before the commencement of the Statutory 3
Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 2007, section 129.'. 4
Clause 130 Insertion of new ch 20 5
After section 643-- 6
insert-- 7
`Chapter 20 Transitional provisions for 8
Statutory Bodies 9
Legislation Amendment Act 10
2007 11
`644 Rights and entitlements of particular employees 12
`(1) This section applies to a person who-- 13
(a) becomes an employee of the employing office; and 14
(b) was an employee of WorkCover-- 15
(i) immediately before the commencement of this 16
section; and 17
(ii) immediately before becoming an employee of the 18
employing office. 19
`(2) On becoming an employee of the employing office, the person 20
is taken to be employed under section 475F on the conditions 21
on which the person would have been employed by 22
WorkCover, immediately before the person became an 23
employee of the employing office, if WorkCover had never 24
become an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 25
(Cwlth). 26
`(3) Also-- 27
(a) the person keeps all rights and entitlements, including 28
entitlements to receive long service, recreation and sick 29
leave and any similar entitlements, that-- 30
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(i) have accrued or were accruing to the person as an 1
employee of WorkCover; and 2
(ii) would have accrued to the person if WorkCover 3
had never become an employer under the 4
Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth); and 5
(b) if the person is a member of a superannuation scheme-- 6
(i) the person keeps all entitlements accrued or 7
accruing to the person as a member of the scheme; 8
and 9
(ii) the person's membership of the scheme is not 10
affected. 11
`(4) Without limiting subsection (3), for working out the person's 12
rights and entitlements, including entitlements to receive long 13
service, recreation and sick leave and any similar entitlements, 14
employment of the person by the employing office is a 15
continuation of employment of the person by WorkCover. 16
`(5) If the person was a seconded employee immediately before 17
becoming an employee of the employing office, the 18
arrangement under which the person was performing work for 19
a government entity, other than WorkCover, or for a 20
non-Queensland government entity may continue until the 21
arrangement ends, and, if the arrangement does continue-- 22
(a) subsection (2) does not apply to the person; and 23
(b) on the ending of the arrangement, the person is taken to 24
be employed under section 475F on the conditions on 25
which the person would have been employed by 26
WorkCover, on the ending of the arrangement, if-- 27
(i) the person had continued to be an employee of 28
WorkCover; and 29
(ii) WorkCover had never become an employer under 30
the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cwlth). 31
`(6) Subsections (2) and (5)(b) do not limit section 475F(3) and 32
(4). 33
`(7) In this section-- 34
employee of WorkCover includes a seconded employee. 35
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seconded employee means an employee of WorkCover 1
performing work for another government entity or 2
non-Queensland government entity under an arrangement 3
entered into, before the commencement of this section, by 4
WorkCover with the appropriate authority of the other 5
government entity or non-Queensland government entity. 6
`645 Application of industrial instruments 7
`The employing office is taken to be bound by the industrial 8
instruments that bound WorkCover immediately before it 9
became an employer under the Workplace Relations Act 1996 10
(Cwlth). 11
`646 Amending Act does not affect particular powers of 12
WorkCover 13
`Nothing in the Statutory Bodies Legislation Amendment Act 14
2007, part 12, affects the powers of WorkCover under section 15
388. 16
`647 Continued application of repealed s 448 17
`(1) Section 448,13 as in force immediately before the 18
commencement of this section, continues to apply in relation 19
to persons employed by WorkCover under the repealed 20
section immediately before the commencement while that 21
employment continues. 22
`(2) This section does not limit section 646.'. 23
Clause 131 Amendment of sch 6 (Dictionary) 24
(1) Schedule 6, definition government entity-- 25
omit. 26
(2) Schedule 6-- 27
insert-- 28
`employee of the employing office see section 475F(2). 29
13 Section 448 (Basis of employment generally)
s 131 112 s 131
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employing office means the WorkCover Employing Office 1
established under section 475A. 2
executive officer means the executive officer of the employing 3
office appointed under section 475D. 4
government entity has the meaning given by the Public 5
Service Act 1996, section 21, and includes a GOC. 6
non-Queensland government entity means-- 7
(a) the Commonwealth or a State other than Queensland; or 8
(b) an agency or instrumentality of the Commonwealth or a 9
State other than Queensland. 10
work performance arrangement means an arrangement under 11
which an employee of a government entity or non-Queensland 12
government entity performs work for another government 13
entity or non-Queensland government entity.'. 14
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