COMMUNITY SERVICES INDUSTRY (PORTABLE LONG SERVICE LEAVE) ACT 2020 - As at 1 February 2024 - Act 19 of 2020
- As at 1 February 2024 - Act 19 of 2020Table of Provisions
PART 1 - PRELIMINARY
PART 2 - INTERPRETATION
- 5 Definitions
- 6 Meaning of community services industry
- 7 Meaning of community services and community services work
- 8 Meaning of worker
- 9 Meaning of employer
PART 3 - COMMUNITY SERVICES INDUSTRY (PORTABLE LONG SERVICE LEAVE) AUTHORITY
Division 1 - Establishment and status
Division 2 - Functions and powers
Division 3 - Board
Subdivision 1 - Establishment, functions and powers- 15 Establishment
- 16 Functions
- 17 Powers Subdivision 2 - Membership
- 18 Members
- 19 Deputy chairperson
- 20 Term of appointment
- 21 Conditions of appointment
- 22 Disqualification
- 23 Vacancy of office
- 24 Acting director Subdivision 3 - Business
- 25 Meaning of material personal interest
- 26 Conduct of business
- 27 Attendance at meetings by electronic means
- 28 Frequency of meetings
- 29 Presiding at board meetings
- 30 Minutes
- 31 Quorum
- 32 Voting at board meetings
- 33 Disclosure of interests at board meetings
- 34 Decisions on questions in writing
Division 4 - Administration
- 35 Administration subject to Minister
- 36 General manager
- 37 Management of authority
- 38 Staff and services for authority
- 39 Document presumed to be properly made
- 40 Agreement about administration of Act
Division 5 - Financial provisions
PART 4 - REGISTERS
Division 1 - Registration of workers
- 44 Authority to keep register of workers
- 45 Application for registration as a registered worker
- 46 Authority to decide application
- 47 Authority may register worker without application
- 48 Information to be entered in register of workers
- 49 Determining individual’s registration day
- 50 Other information requested for the register of workers
- 51 Show cause notice before cancellation
- 52 Cancellation of registration
Division 2 - Registration of employers
- 53 Authority to keep register of employers
- 54 Application for registration as a registered employer
- 55 Court order about application
- 56 Authority to decide application
- 57 Information to be entered in register of employers
- 58 Employer to give notice of change to information given
- 59 Authority may require information or documents from employer
- 60 Cancellation of registration
PART 5 - SERVICE CREDITS, RETURNS, PAYMENTS AND RECORDS
- 61 Meaning of engagement period for a worker
- 62 Crediting service
- 63 Limitations on crediting service
- 64 Notice to registered workers about service credits
- 65 Employer must give return
- 66 Payments of levy for return period
- 67 Decisions about ordinary wages in returns
- 68 Employer may apply for exemption from lodging return
- 69 Civil penalty for failure to give return or pay levy
- 70 Employer to keep record for each worker
PART 6 - LONG SERVICE LEAVE
Division 1 - Preliminary
- 71 Definitions for part
Division 2 - Application for and entitlement to long service leave
- 72 Application for long service leave entitlement by registered worker
- 73 Entitlement to long service leave
Division 3 - Calculation and payment of long service leave
- 74 Amount of long service leave payment
- 75 Long service leave not payable in particular cases
- 76 Payments to employers after registered worker paid long service leave
- 77 Payment to employers before registered worker paid long service leave
- 78 If employer unable to pay entitlement
- 79 Authority may pay if employer insolvent
- 80 Entitlement if credit for service accrued elsewhere
- 81 Entitlement if corresponding authority pays
- 82 Payment may be deferred
- 83 Authority’s liability confined to long service leave
PART 7 - LEVIES
- 84 Imposition of levy
- 85 Amount of levy
- 86 Authority may require information or documents if levy not paid
- 87 Additional levy payments
- 88 Interest on levy and extension of time for payment of levy
- 89 Recovery of levy amount
- 90 Penalties no relief from levy
PART 8 - REVIEWS AND APPEALS
Division 1 - Purpose of part
- 91 Purpose
Division 2 - Internal review of original decisions
Division 3 - Appeals to industrial magistrate
Division 4 - Appeals to industrial court
- 99 Appeal
PART 9 - AUTHORISED OFFICERS
Division 1 - Appointment
- 100 Authorised officers under part
- 101 Functions of authorised officers
- 102 General manager is an authorised officer
- 103 Appointment and qualifications
- 104 Appointment conditions and limit on powers
- 105 When office ends
- 106 Resignation
Division 2 - Identity cards
Division 3 - Powers of authorised officers
- 110 Definitions
- 111 Application of contract cleaning provisions
PART 10 - PROCEEDINGS FOR OFFENCES
- 112 Proceedings for offences
- 113 Powers of industrial magistrate
- 114 Evidentiary certificates about returns
- 115 Evidentiary certificates about levy payments
- 116 Other evidentiary certificates
- 117 Penalties to be paid to authority
PART 11 - MISCELLANEOUS
- 118 Offence of improper disclosure of information
- 119 Arrangements with other States
- 120 Declaration about arrangements with other States
- 121 General manager’s power of delegation
- 122 Protecting officials from liability
- 123 Review of Act
- 124 Approved forms
- 125 Regulation-making power