Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Public Interest Certificates for Work Health and Safety Purposes) Rules 2025

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Social Services, make the following rules.

Dated 24.09.2025    

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for Social Services

Contents

1  Name...................................................1

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

3  Authority................................................1

4  Schedules................................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Paid Parental Leave Rules 2021 2

56A  Work health and safety......................................2

1  Name

  This instrument is the Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Public Interest Certificates for Work Health and Safety Purposes) Rules 2025.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences the day after this instrument is registered.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 298 of the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Paid Parental Leave Rules 2021

1  After section 56

Insert:

56A  Work health and safety

  For the purposes of paragraph 55(1)(b), this section covers a disclosure that is reasonably necessary to assist a:

1.     Commonwealth agency (including the Human Services Department); or
2.    State agency; or
3.     Territory agency,

to manage a potential or actual work health and safety risk to that agency at premises where the Human Services Department is present.