Commonwealth Numbered Acts

LONG SERVICE LEAVE (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) ACT 1976 No. 192, 1976 - SECT 18

18. (1) For the purposes of sections 16 and 17-

   (a)  the long service leave credit of a category A employee on a day is the
        period equal to the number of months ascertained in accordance with
        the formula-

3a
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b
10

where-

a is the number of years comprised in the part of his period of service that
accrued before the prescribed day; and

b is the number of months comprised in the period or the sum of the periods of
long service leave (if any) previously granted to him;

   (b)  the long service leave credit related to the full-time service of a
        category B employee on a day is the period equal to the number of
        months ascertained in accordance with the formula-

3c
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d
10

where-

c is the number of years comprised in a period equal to the period, or the sum
of the periods, of his employment in a full-time capacity included in the part
of his period of service that accrued before the prescribed day; and

d is the number of months comprised in the period, or the sum of the periods,
of long service leave (if any) previously granted to him in relation to his
full-time service; and

   (c)  the long service leave credit related to the part-time service of a
        category B employee on a day is the period equal to the number of
        months ascertained in accordance with the formula-

3e
--- --
f
10

where-

e is the number of years comprised in a period equal to the period, or the sum
of the periods, of his employment in a part-time capacity included in the part
of his period of service that accrued before the prescribed day; and

f is the number of months comprised in the period, or the sum of the periods,
of long service leave (if any) previously granted to him in relation to his
part-time service.
(2) In this section, ''prescribed day'' means-

   (a)  in relation to a long service leave credit of an employee on the day
        on which he ceases to be an employee-the day immediately following the
        last day of the last completed month in the employee's period of
        service ending on the day on which he ceases to be an employee; or

   (b)  in relation to a long service leave credit of an employee on any other
        day-the day immediately following the last day of the last completed
        year of service included in the employee's period of service ending on
        that other day.