Western Australian Consolidated Acts

LONG SERVICE LEAVE ACT 1958 - SECT 26A

26A .         Access to records kept by employer

        (1)         An employer, on request in writing by a relevant person, must — 

            (a)         produce to the person the records under section 26 relating to an employee to whom that section applies; and

            (b)         let the person inspect the records.

        (1a)         A contravention of subsection (1) is not an offence but that subsection is a civil penalty provision for the purposes of the Industrial Relations Act 1979 section 83E.

        (1b)         Subsection (1a) extends to a contravention that occurred within the period of 12 months ending on the coming into operation of the Labour Relations Legislation Amendment Act 2006 Part 7 Division 2  ¹ unless the employer was charged with an offence in respect of that contravention.

        (2)         Relevant persons are — 

            (a)         the employee or a person authorised in writing by the employee; and

            (b)         an industrial inspector.

        (3)         The duty placed on an employer by subsection (1) — 

            (a)         continues so long as the record is required to be kept under section 26(2)(b);

            (b)         is not affected by the fact that the employee is no longer employed by the employer;

            (c)         includes the further duties — 

                  (i)         to let the relevant person enter premises of the employer for the purposes of inspection of the records; and

                  (ii)         to let the relevant person take copies of, or extracts from, the records;

                and

            (d)         must be complied with not later than the end of the next pay period after the request for inspection is received.

        [Section 26A inserted by No. 79 of 1995 s. 54; amended by No. 36 of 2006 s. 61.]