Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) An employee who–
is entitled to be credited with up to 65 days of the long service leave the employee would have been entitled to or eligible for if the employee had not ceased to be so employed and if the employee has not received any payment in respect of that long service leave.(a) was employed by the Commonwealth or another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth; and
(b) became an employee within 3 months after ceasing to be so employed–
(2) Any period of employment by the Commonwealth or another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth which is prescribed under a law of the Commonwealth or that State or Territory of the Commonwealth as being a continuous period of employment is to be treated as a continuous period of employment for the purposes of this Act.
(3) Any period of long service leave granted to a person referred to in subsection (1) under a law of the Commonwealth or of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth before the person became an employee is to be treated as a period of long service leave granted under this Act.
(4) In this section,
"employment by the Commonwealth or another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth" includes employment with a body, organization or authority which is established under an Act of Parliament of the Commonwealth or other State or an ordinance of a Territory of the Commonwealth but excludes employment with a local government authority.