Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) In this
section —
accepted part-time employee means a person in
respect of whom there is a declaration in force under subsection (2).
(2) The Board may
declare a contributor for units of pension or a contributor or subscriber to
the Provident Account to be an accepted part-time employee if —
(a) the
employee’s hours of work are reduced so that he or she is no longer
required to give his or her whole time to the duties of his or her employment;
and
(b) the
Board is satisfied that the reduction is necessary or desirable—
(i)
in the interests of the contributor’s health; or
(ii)
for some other special reason that the Board considers to
be adequate.
(2a) A declaration
under subsection (2) comes into force, or is taken to have come into
force, on the day on which the person’s hours of work are or were so
reduced.
(2b) The Board may
make a declaration under subsection (2) in respect of a person who was
formerly a contributor for units of pension or a contributor or subscriber to
the Provident Account and any such declaration comes into force and has effect
as if this section had been in operation on the day on which the
person’s hours of work were so reduced.
(3) Notwithstanding
the definition of “employee” in section 6(1), while a person
is an accepted part-time employee he or she does not cease to be an employee
only because he or she is not required to give his or her whole time to the
duties of his or her employment.
(4) For the purposes
of this Act, while a person is an accepted part-time employee his or her
salary is to be taken to be the amount the Board determines to be the salary
he or she would earn if he or she gave his or her whole time to the duties of
his or her employment.
(5) For the purposes
of calculating the length of an accepted part-time employee’s service,
the period during which the employee is not required to give his or her whole
time to the duties of his or her employment is to be counted as if he or she
had given his or her whole time to the duties of his or her employment during
that period.
(6) The Board may, at
any time, revoke a declaration under subsection (2) if is satisfied that
it is no longer necessary or desirable for the employee to work the reduced
hours he or she is then working.
(7) A declaration
under subregulation (2) remains in force until —
(a) it
is revoked by the Board;
(b) the
employee is again required to give his or her whole time to the duties of his
or her employment; or
(c) the
contributor ceases to be an employee.
[Section 7 inserted in Gazette 16 February 2001
pp.1017-19; amended in Gazette 29 June 2001 p.3106.]
[Part II (Sections 8-23). Deleted by No. 17 of 1987 s.6.]