Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee – Defence Families of Australia) Notice 2015 (Cth)

Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee – Defence Families of Australia) Notice 2015

I, ERIC ABETZ, Minister for Employment, make this Notice under subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.

Dated 20th April 2015

ERIC ABETZ

Minister for Employment

1 Name of Notice

This Notice is the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee – Defence Families of Australia) Notice 2015.

2 Commencement

This Notice commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

3 Declaration

For the purposes of subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988, I declare that:

(a) the class of persons specified in Column 1 of the Schedule, being persons who engage in the activities or perform acts specified in Column 2 of the Schedule, for the benefit of the Commonwealth, shall be taken to be employed by the Commonwealth; and

(b) the employment of such persons shall, for those purposes, be taken to be constituted by the performance by such persons of the acts or activities specified in Column 2 of the Schedule.

Schedule

Item Column 1: Class of persons Column 2: Activities or acts

1 Persons holding a current appointment to the Executive Committee of Defence Families of Australia (other than a person who is a 'member', as defined under section 5 of the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004) who, for the benefit of the Commonwealth, perform one or more of the acts specified in column 2. Consistent with the Charter of Defence Familes of Australia signed by the Chief of the Defence Force on 2 April 2014 and the Assistant Minister for Defence on 20 April 2014: