Queensland Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 2009 - SECT 287

287 Local Government Association

(1) On and from 1 July 2010—

(a) the Local Government Association of Queensland (Incorporated) (
"LGAQ Inc." ) established under the 1993 Act stops being a public authority (however called) for the purposes of an Act (including the Ombudsman Act 2001 and Public Records Act 2002, for example); and

(b) all rights, liabilities and interests of LGAQ Inc., that are in existence immediately before 1 July 2010, are taken to be the rights, liabilities and interests of LGAQ Ltd.

(2) The
"LGAQ Ltd." is the corporation prescribed under a regulation for this section.

(3) For example—

(a) an agreement with the LGAQ Inc. becomes an agreement with LGAQ Ltd.; and

(b) an interest in real or personal property of LGAQ Inc. becomes an interest of LGAQ Ltd.; and

(c) a proceeding that could be started or continued by or against LGAQ Inc. may be started or continued by or against LGAQ Ltd.; and

(d) a person who was employed by LGAQ Inc. is taken to be employed by LGAQ Ltd.

(4) This change of employer does not—

(a) affect an employee’s employment conditions, benefits, entitlements or remuneration; or

(b) prejudice an employee’s existing or accruing rights to—

(i) recreation, sick, long service or other leave; or

(ii) superannuation; or

(c) entitle a person to a payment or other benefit merely because the person is no longer employed by LGAQ Inc.; or

(d) interrupt a person’s continuity of service; or

(e) constitute a retrenchment or redundancy.

(5) A reference in an Act or document to the LGAQ Inc. may, if the context permits, be taken to be a reference to LGAQ Ltd.