2004-2005-2006-2007

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Independent Contractors Amendment Bill 2007

No.      , 2007

(Mr Wilkie)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Independent Contractors Act 2006

Contents

1  Short title....................................................................................................... 1

2  Commencement............................................................................................. 1

3  Schedule(s).................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments to the Independent Contractors Act 2006              2

A Bill for an Act to amend the Independent Contractors Act 2006

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act may be cited as the Independent Contractors Amendment Act 2007.

2  Commencement

                   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Schedule(s)

                   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments to the Independent Contractors Act 2006

1  Subparagraph 7(2) (b) (iii)

Repeal the subparagraph, substitute:

       “(iii) the Owner Drivers (Contracts and Disputes) Act 2007 of Western Australia;

       (iv) any instrument made under a provision of a law referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii); or”.