STATES GRANTS (COAL MINING INDUSTRY LONG SERVICE LEAVE).

No. 54 of 1956.

An Act to amend the States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Act 1949–1950.

[Assented to 30th June, 1956.]

[Date of commencement, 28th July, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows :—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.)     This Act may be cited as the States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Act 1956.

(2.)   The States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Act 1949–1950 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)   The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the States Grants (Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave) Act 1949–1956.

Coal Mining Industry Long Service Leave Fund.

2.  Section three of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section :—

“(6.)    Income derived from the investment of moneys standing to the credit of the Fund forms part of the Fund.”.

Further grants to States.

3.  After section four of the Principal Act the following section is added :—

“5.—(1.)   Where a State has notified the Commonwealth that, in determining the entitlement of State coal mine employees in that State to long service leave, a period of employment in the coal mining industry in the service of an employer bound by an industrial award providing for long service leave will be treated as service as a State coal mine employee, there are payable to the State, in respect of expenditure incurred, or to be incurred, by the State by reason of such periods of employment being so treated, such amounts as the Treasurer from time to time determines.

“(2.) In this section—

‘State coal mine’ means a coal mine owned by a State or by an authority constituted by an Act of the Parliament of a State;

‘State coal mine employee’ means a person employed in or in connexion with a State coal mine.”.