Trade Union Training Authority Amendment Act 1986

No. 96 of 1986

An Act to amend section 20 of the Trade Union Training Authority Act 1975

[Assented to 17 October 1986]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Trade Union Training Authority Amendment Act 1986.

(2) The Trade Union Training Authority Act 19751 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Constitution of Regional Councils for States

3. Section 20 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (1) (e) and substituting the following paragraph:

“(e) one person, being an officer or employee of the Authority employed in relation to the State, to represent the officers and employees of the Authority employed in relation to the State, elected in accordance with the regulations by the officers and employees of the Authority employed in relation to the State and appointed by the Minister;”; and

(b) by adding at the end the following sub-section:

“(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1) (e), an officer or employee of the Authority shall be taken to be employed in relation to a State if, and only if—

(a) the duties of the officer or employee are usually performed in the State;

(b) those duties are not usually performed at an office declared by the regulations to be a non-Regional office for the purposes of this section; and

(c) in the case of the State in which the College is situated—those duties are not usually performed at the College.”.

NOTE

1. No. 50, 1975, as amended, For previous amendments, see Nos. 37 and 91, 1976; Nos. 36, 92 and 209, 1978; Nos. 61 and 176, 1981; No. 80, 1982; and No. 65, 1985.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 12 February 1986

Senate on 13 March 1986]