Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 (NSW)

Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986 No 19

An Act to make provision for long service payments to workers engaged in the building and construction industry; to repeal the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1974; and for other purposes.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act This Act may be cited as the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1986.

2 Commencement (1) Sections 1 and 2 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act. (2) Except as provided by subsection (1), this Act shall commence on such day as may be appointed by the Governor and notified by proclamation published in the Gazette.

3 Definitions (1) In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires— approved means approved by the Corporation. authorised agent means an agent of the Corporation appointed under section 44. award means a State industrial instrument or a Commonwealth industrial instrument. building and construction industry means the industry of carrying out the construction, reconstruction, renovation, alteration, demolition or maintenance or repairs of or to any of the following— (a) buildings, (b) swimming pools, (c) fences, (d) roadworks, railways, airfields or other works for the carriage of persons, animals or vehicles, (e) breakwaters, docks, jetties, piers, wharves or works for the improvement or alteration of any harbour, river or watercourse for the purpose of navigation, (f) works for the storage or supply of water or for the irrigation of land, (g) works for the conveyance, treatment or disposal of sewage or of the effluent from any premises, (h) bridges, viaducts, aqueducts or tunnels, (i) chimney stacks, cooling towers, drilling rigs, gas holders or silos, (j) pipelines, (k) structures, fixtures or works for use in or in conjunction with any building or other works referred to in paragraphs (a) to (j) inclusive, (l) navigational lights, beacons or markers, (m) works for the drainage of land, (n) works for the storage of liquids, other than water, or of gases, (o) works for the transmission of electric power, (p) works for the transmission of wireless or telegraphic communications, and includes pile driving and the preparation of the site for any building or other works referred to in paragraphs (a) to (p) inclusive. building and construction work means work in the building and construction industry performed in New South Wales, being— (a) work carried out under a contract of employment for which a rate of pay is fixed by an award prescribed by the regulations, or (b) work— (i) carried out under a contract that is not a contract of employment, and (ii) that would, if it had been carried out under a contract of employment, be work for which a rate of pay was fixed by an award prescribed by the regulations, or (c) the work of a person who, under a contract of employment— (i) directly supervises work of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), or (ii) is a clerk of works. Chief Executive Officer means the Secretary of the Department of Customer Service. Committee means the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Committee constituted by section 8. Commonwealth industrial instrument means an award, workplace agreement or other agreement made under (or taken to have been made, or to have effect, under) an Act of the Commonwealth, being an award, workplace agreement or other agreement prescribed (or of a class prescribed) by the regulations for the purposes of this definition. Corporation means the Long Service Corporation established under the Long Service Corporation Act 2010. corresponding authority means the authority under a corresponding law that is for the time being charged with the day to day administration of that law. corresponding law means a law declared by an order in force under subsection (6) to be a corresponding law for the purposes of this Act. financial year means a year commencing on 1 July. former Act means the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Act 1974. foundation worker means a registered worker whose name was entered in the register (within the meaning of the former Act) immediately before the commencement of this Act as the name of a foundation worker. Fund means the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Payments Fund established under the Long Service Corporation Act 2010. long service levy means a long service levy under Part 5, and includes an additional amount of any such levy under section 41. long service payment means a long service payment under Part 4. reciprocating State or Territory means a State or Territory of the Commonwealth declared by an order in force under subsection (6) to be a reciprocating State or Territory for the purposes of this Act. register of workers means the register of workers kept by the Corporation under section 15. registered worker means a person whose name is entered in the register of workers. regulation means a regulation made under this Act. standard pay means— (a) except as provided by paragraph (b), the amount of ordinary pay that is payable at the rate applicable for the classification "Carpenter and/or Joiner" under the Building Tradesmen (State) Construction Award published in the Industrial Gazette on 16 July 1975 in respect of work on 5 working days during those hours in which ordinary pay is payable, or (b) the amount of pay prescribed by, or determined in accordance with, the regulations. subcontract worker means a worker who performs work otherwise than under a contract of employment. worker means any person who, under a contract, whether or not a contract of employment, performs building and construction work, however remunerated, but does not include a person of a class prescribed as exempt by the regulations or a person who performs, or supervises the performance of, any such work under a contract of employment— (a) with any body constituted by any Act of the Parliament of a State or of the Commonwealth (other than the Royal Agricultural Society Act 1911 or a prescribed Act), or (b) with a council, a county council or a joint organisation within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993. working day means a day on which ordinary rates of pay are payable. year's service means a year's service within the meaning of subsection (5).