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WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1951 - SECT 16A

Family day care educators

    (1)     An educator engaged by an approved family day care service is taken to be a worker of the service.

    (2)     Also, the Minister may make a declaration for this section—

        (a)     if requested by an approved family day care service; or

        (b)     on the Minister's own initiative, if the Minister considers that people engaged by an approved family day care service should be treated as workers of the service.

    (3)     For this Act—

        (a)     an individual included in a class of individuals declared by the Minister is taken to be a worker employed by the person stated in the declaration to be the employer of individuals in that class; and

        (b)     the individual's employment is taken to be as stated in the declaration for individuals in the class.

    (4)     A declaration is a notifiable instrument.

Note     A notifiable instrument must be notified under the Legislation Act

.

    (5)     In this section:

"approved family day care service"—see the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) , section 5 (1).

"educator"—see the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) , section 5 (1).

Note     The Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) Act 2011

, s 6 applies the Education and Care Services National Law set out in the Education and Care Services National Law Act 2010

(Vic), schedule as if it were an ACT law called the Education and Care Services National Law (ACT) .



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