AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

LONG SERVICE LEAVE (BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 22 of 1986

Section 66 of the Long Service Leave (Building and Construction Insdustry) Ordinance 1981 empowers the Minister to make regulations, not inconsistent with the Ordinance, prescribing all matters which by the Ordinance are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Ordinance.  This includes the power to prescribe awards for the purposes of the definition of “building and construction work” in sub-section 3 (1) of the Ordinance.

Regulation 2 of the Long Service Leave (Building and Construction Industry) Regulations lists those awards which are prescribed.  The Regulations (Amendment) adds a new paragraph (ca) to include the Draughtsmen, Planners and Technical Officers (ACT) Award 1982 as a prescribed award.

Details of the Regulations (Amendment) are as follows:

Regulation 1 provides for the amendment to come into effect on 1 November 1986.

Regulation 2 inserts new paragraph “(ca) Draughtsmen, Planners and Technical Officers (ACT) Award 1982,” after paragraph (c) in Regulation 2 of the Long Service Leave (Building and Construction Industry) Regulations.