BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (PORTABLE LONG SERVICE LEAVE) ACT 1991 - As at 1 February 2024 - Act 90 of 1991
- As at 1 February 2024 - Act 90 of 1991Table of Provisions
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
- 1 Short title 2. (Repealed)
- 3 Definitions
- 3AA Meaning of building and construction industry
- 3A Who is an eligible worker
- 3B When an individual is not an eligible worker
- 4 Meaning of substantially engaged in the building and construction industry
- 5 Act binds all persons
PART 2 - BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (PORTABLE LONG SERVICE LEAVE) AUTHORITY
Division 1 - Establishment of authority
Division 2 - Functions and powers of authority
PART 3 - OTHER PROVISIONS ABOUT THE AUTHORITY
- 11 The board
- 12 Role of board
- 13 Composition of board
- 14 Appointment of directors
- 15 Disqualification from board
- 16 Term of office
- 17 Vacating office
- 18 Casual vacancy
- 19 Board meetings
- 20 Procedure at meetings etc.
- 21 Minutes
- 22 Custody and affixing of seal
- 23 Execution of contracts and agreements
- 24 Remuneration of directors
PART 4 - ADMINISTRATION
- 25 Administration subject to Minister
- 26 General manager and staff employed under Public Sector Act 2022
- 27 Duties of general manager
- 28 Things done by general manager
- 29 General manager’s power of delegation
- 30 Judicial notice of signatures
- 31 Use of services of public service employees
PART 5 - FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
- 32 Funds of authority
- 33 Dealing with building and construction industry training levy
- 34 Proposed budget and progress budget reports
- 35 Actuarial investigation of funds
- 36 Application of Finance Acts
PART 6 - REGISTRATION AND SERVICE CREDITS
Division 1 - Register of workers
- 37 Authority to keep register of workers
- 38 Application for registration
- 39 Approval or refusal of application for registration
- 40 When person becomes a registered worker
- 41 Cancellation of registration
Division 2 - Register of employers
- 42 Authority to keep register of employers
- 43 Application for registration
- 44 Approval or refusal of application for registration
- 45 Employer to notify authority of any change in circumstance
- 46 Cancellation of registration as a registered employer
- 46A Authority may require information or documents from person believed to be employer
Division 3 - Service credits
- 47 Certificate of service to be supplied by employers
- 48 Form and contents of certificate
- 49 Exemptions
- 50 Number of days’ service
- 51 Year’s service
- 51A Service credits for injured workers
- 52 Limitations on service credits
- 53 Notice to registered workers of service credits
- 54 Retrospective service credits
- 55 Application for retrospective service credits
PART 7 - LONG SERVICE LEAVE
- 56 Application for entitlement to long service leave or payment instead of long service leave
- 57 Entitlement to long service leave 58. (Repealed)
- 59 Amount of long service leave payment
- 59A Maximum amount of ordinary pay for normal working week
- 60 Long service leave payment not payable in certain cases
- 61 Election to take benefits under this Act or Industrial Relations Act
- 62 Payments to employers
- 62AA Maximum amount of ordinary pay for normal working week
- 62A Payment to worker or personal representative instead of employer in particular circumstances
- 63 Entitlement to long service leave payment for service in reciprocating State or Territory
- 64 Authority’s liability confined to long service leave
- 65 Payment when due
PART 7A - (Expired)
PART 8 - LEVIES
- 66 Imposition of levies
- 67 Notification of building and construction work
- 68 Offence for failure to pay levy
- 68A Deciding who is person for whom work is to be done or was to be done
- 69 Power of authority to decide day when building and construction work starts and ends
- 70 No levy for certain building and construction work
- 71 Exemption from payment of levy
- 72 Rate of levy
- 73 Meaning of cost of building and construction work
- 74 Liability for levy
- 75 When levy is payable
- 76 Government entity to notify authority of building and construction work
- 77 Duty to sight approved form 78. (Repealed)
- 79 Voluntary performance of building and construction work
- 80 Additional provisions about levy
- 81 Refunds of levy
- 82 Payment of levy by instalments
- 83 Appointment of agents for collection of levy
- 84 Interest on, and extension of time for payment of, levy
- 85 Recovery of levy
- 86 Penalties no relief from levy
PART 9 - APPEALS
- 87 Reconsideration by authority
- 88 Appeal to industrial magistrate
- 89 Appeal from industrial magistrate to Industrial Court
PART 10 - MISCELLANEOUS
- 90 Arrangements with other States and with Territories
- 90A Arrangements with other entities
- 91 Declaration
- 92 Keeping, and inspection, of books and records
- 93 Conflict of interest
- 94 Holders of office to act honestly and with propriety
- 95 Authorised officers
- 96 Authorised officer to produce identity card
- 97 Entry and search—monitoring compliance
- 98 Entry and search—evidence of offences
- 99 General powers of authorised officer in relation to places
- 100 Monitoring warrant
- 101 Offence related warrant
- 102 Obstruction etc. of authorised officers
- 103 False or misleading statements
- 104 Secrecy
- 105 Proceedings for offences
- 106 Certain persons liable for offences by unincorporated bodies
- 107 Powers of industrial magistrate
- 108 Evidentiary provisions
- 109 Certificate as to payment of levy
- 110 Indemnity to persons administering Act
- 111 Protection of worker from dismissal
- 111A Penalties to be paid to authority
- 112 Regulations
- 113 (Expired)
- 114 (Expired)
- 115 (Expired)
PART 11 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Division 1 - Transitional provision for Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Amendment Act 1994
- 116 References to board
Division 2 - Transitional provisions for Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Amendment Act 1998
Division 3 - Transitional provision for WorkCover Queensland and Other Acts Amendment Act 2000
- 119 Government apprentices and trainees
Division 4 - Transitional provisions for Building and Construction Industry (Portable Long Service Leave) Amendment Act 2005
- 120 Eligible workers
- 121 Notice of cancellation of employer’s registration
Division 5 - Transitional provisions for Transport and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2008, part 12, division 2
- 122 Cap applicable to all applications received on or after commencement
Division 6 - Transitional provision for Electrical Safety and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2009
- 123 Notices published in industrial gazette
Division 7 - Transitional provisions for Work Health and Safety Act 2011
- 124 Liability to pay fee under regulation preserved
Division 8 - Transitional provision for Planning (Consequential) and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2016
- 125 Existing particular development applications or requests for compliance assessment