Australian Capital Territory

fire brigade (Administration) regulations
This consolidation has been prepared by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel’s Office
Reprinted as at 15 January 1993
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Regulation
	1.	Citation
	2.	Interpretation
	3.	Repeal of former Fire Brigade (Administration) Regulations
	4.	References in awards to repealed Regulations
	5.	Long service leave benefits for certain persons
	6.	Calculation of long service leave benefits due to certain persons

Citation
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Fire Brigade (Administration) Regulations.1
Interpretation
2.  In these Regulations—
“long service leave benefits” means benefits of the kind provided under the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943 or sections 16 and 17 of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976;
“the Act” means the Fire Brigade (Administration) Act 1974.

Repeal of former Fire Brigade (Administration) Regulations
3.  Regulations 1974 No. 30 are repealed.
References in awards to repealed Regulations
4.  For the purposes of these Regulations, a reference in an award by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to the Regulations repealed by regulation 3, or to a provision of those Regulations, shall be read as a reference to these Regulations, or to the corresponding provision of these Regulations, as the case may be.
Long service leave benefits for certain persons
5.  Subject to regulation 6, for the purposes of section 16 of the Act, the prescribed terms and conditions of employment of a person who became a member before 26 May 1978 (being terms and conditions relating to long service leave benefits) are, in respect of service on or after 25 November 1974, the terms and conditions specified in—
	(a)	clause 22 of the Fire Brigade Employees (A.C.T.) Award 1975 made by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, being Award No. C321 of 1975; or
	(b)	the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 of the Commonwealth,
whichever provides the greater long service leave benefits for the person.
Calculation of long service leave benefits due to certain persons
6.  For the purpose of calculating the long service leave benefits due in pursuance of paragraph 5 (a) to a person who became a member before 26 May 1978 and who had, immediately before becoming a member, been employed by the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales—
	(a)	a period of service that that Board would have been required to take into account in calculating the long service leave benefits that would have been due by that Board to the person immediately before the person became a member shall be deemed to have been a period of service of the person with the Brigade, whether or not the period of service would, of itself, have entitled the person to the provision of long service leave benefits by that Board; and
	(b)	long service leave benefits enjoyed by the person in respect of a period of service referred to in paragraph (a) shall be deemed to have been enjoyed by the person in respect of service with the Brigade.

NOTE
1.	The Fire Brigade (Administration) Regulations (in force under the Fire Brigade (Administration) Act 1974) comprise Regulations 1980 No. 12 amended as indicated in the Tables below.
	Citation of Laws—The Self-Government (Citation of Laws) Act 1989  (No. 21, 1989) altered the citation of most Ordinances so that after Self-Government day they are to be cited as Acts.  That Act also affects references in ACT laws to Commonwealth Acts.
Table of Subordinate Laws
Regulation
No.	Date of making	Date of 
notification 
in Gazette	Date of 
commencement	Application, saving or transitional provisions	

1980 No. 12	4 Aug 1980	21 Aug 1980	21 Aug 1980		
No. 1, 1993
	14 Jan 1993	15 Jan 1993	15 Jan 1993	—	

Table of Amendments
ad. = added or inserted      am. = amended     rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision	How affected

Rr. 7-19	rep. No. 1, 1993