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LONG SERVICE LEAVE ACT 1958 - SECT 27

27 .         Prohibition of employment during long service leave

        (1)         An employee shall not, during any period when he is on long service leave, engage in any employment for reward in substitution for the employment from which he is on leave.

        (2)         If an employee, during any period when he is on long service leave, engages in any employment for reward in substitution for the employment from which he is on leave the employee shall thereupon forfeit his right to leave hereunder in respect of the unexpired period of leave upon which he has entered, and the employer shall be entitled to withhold any further payment in respect of the period and to reclaim any payments already made on account of such period of leave.

        (3)         The provisions of this section shall not apply to an employee who, pursuant to section 9(2), is deemed to commence a period of leave on the day of the termination of his employment.

[Division 4 (s. 28-31) deleted by No. 79 of 1995 s. 55.]

[Division 5:         s. 32-34 deleted by No. 79 of 1995 s. 56;
        s. 35 and 36 deleted by No. 36 of 2006 s. 62.]



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