Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Act 1999 (Cth)

Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Act 1999

No. 183, 1999

Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Act 1999

No. 183, 1999

An Act to amend the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986, and for related purposes

Contents 1 Short title................................... 2 Commencement............................... 3 Schedule(s).................................. 4 Definition...................................

Schedule 1—Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace

Part 1—Amendment of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999

Part 2—Amendment of the Equal Employment Opportunity (Commonwealth Authorities) Act 1987

Schedule 2—The short title of the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986 Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986

Schedule 3—Transitional

Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Act 1999

No. 183, 1999

An Act to amend the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986, and for related purposes

[Assented to 22 December 1999]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Act 1999.

2 Commencement

(1) Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 and Schedule 2 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Schedules 1 and 3 commence on 1 January 2000.

3 Schedule(s)

Subject to section 2, each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

4 Definition

In a Schedule to this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act means: (a) so far as the context relates to a time before the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent—the Affirmative Action (Equal Employment Opportunity for Women) Act 1986 as in force at that time; or (b) otherwise—the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Act 1999.