Queensland Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 2016 - SECT 590

590 Leave under the Pensions Act

(1) The Pensions Act , section 15 applies with necessary changes to a member of the court or commission in the way it applies to a judge.

(2) For subsection (1) , a reference in the Pensions Act , section 15 —

(a) to a judge may, if the context permits, be taken to be a reference to a member; and

(b) to the prescribed authority is taken to be a reference to—

(i) if the member is the president—the Chief Justice; or

(ii) otherwise—the president.

(3) In working out a person’s length of service as a member for subsection (1) , the following periods must be taken into account—

(a) a period when the person has served as a member, whether under—

(i) a first appointment as a member or a renewal of the appointment; or

(ii) a subsequent appointment;

(b) a period when the person has served as an acting member.