South Australian Consolidated Acts

EDUCATION ACT 1972 - SECT 24

24—Rights of persons transferred to the teaching service

        (1)         Where an officer has previously been in prescribed employment and his service in the prescribed employment is continuous with his service as an officer, the long service leave to which he is entitled under this Act shall be determined on the basis that his service in the prescribed employment is service in the teaching service.

        (2)         In this section—

"prescribed employment" means—

            (a)         employment in the Public Service of the Commonwealth; and

            (b)         employment in the Public Service of this State; and

            (c)         employment by the Government of the State otherwise than in the Public Service; and

            (d)         employment in the Public Service of any other State or Territory of the Commonwealth; and

            (e)         employment by a University or College of Advanced Education established in this State; and

            (f)         any other employment approved by the Minister.

        (3)         This section does not apply to service in respect of which long service leave has been granted or a payment in lieu of long service leave has been made.

        (4)         For the purposes of this section, continuity of service is not interrupted by an interval, not exceeding six weeks, between the time that service in the prescribed employment terminated and the time the officer took up his employment as such.

        (5)         Where there is an interval of more than six weeks between the conclusion of service in the prescribed employment and the commencement of service in the teaching service, the employing authority may, if in the opinion of the authority special reasons exist for so doing, declare that that interval shall not disrupt the continuity of service, and the declaration shall have effect according to its terms.