Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts7. After section 6 of the Principal Act the following sections and heading are inserted:
“6A. (1) The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette , in accordance with a request by—
(a) a religious organisation; or
(b) a person acting on behalf of a religious organisation;
declare that each person included in a specified class of persons is a worker whose employer is a specified person in that organisation, and whose employment is of a specified nature.
“(2) Where the Minister makes a declaration under subsection (1), then, for the purposes of this Act—
(a) a person included in a class of persons specified in the declaration is to be taken to be a worker;
(b) the person specified in the declaration as the employer of persons in that class is to be taken to be their employer; and
(c) employment of the nature specified in the declaration is to be taken to be employment undertaken by persons in that class.
“6B. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette , determine categories of workers for the purposes of subparagraphs 18 (1) (b) (i) and 23F (1) (b) (i) and Schedule 3.