(1) If an employer
receives or received an indigenous wages subsidy in respect of a new employee,
the employee is an eligible employee at any time, while the employee is an
employee of the employer, during the 24 months commencing on the day on which
the employee first commenced employment with the employer.
(2) An employee of an
employer is a new employee if the employee —
(a)
commences employment with the employer on or after 1 July 2012; and
(b) was
not an employee of the employer, or of any other employer in a group of which
the employer is a member, at any time prior to the commencement of employment
referred to in paragraph (a).