Long Service Leave (State Employees) Regulations 2024
I, the Governor in and over the State of Tasmania and its Dependencies in the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, make the following regulations under the Long Service Leave (State Employees) Act 1994 .
2 December 2024B. BAKER
Governor
By Her Excellency's Command,
GUY BARNETT
Minister for Justice
These regulations may be cited as the Long Service Leave (State Employees) Regulations 2024 .
These regulations take effect on 19 December 2024.
In these regulations Act means the Long Service Leave (State Employees) Act 1994 .
For the purpose of paragraph (c) of the definition of prescribed authority in section 3 of the Act, the position of the General Manager of Corporate Services of the Department is a prescribed office.
For the purposes of the Act (a) a day that is a statutory holiday, within the meaning of the Statutory Holidays Act 2000 , is prescribed as a holiday for the whole State; and(b) a day that is a statutory holiday, for an area of the State specified in column 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Statutory Holidays Act 2000 , is prescribed as a holiday for that area.
(1) An appeal under section 22 of the Act is to be instituted by a notice of appeal in accordance with Form 1 in Schedule 1 .(2) On the hearing of such an appeal, evidence and matters not raised before a Commissioner may only be admitted by leave of the Full Bench hearing the appeal.(3) A Full Bench may determine whether it is to hear both evidence and argument in respect of the appeal.(4) On the hearing of the appeal, a Full Bench (a) is to act according to equity, good conscience and the merits of the matter without regard to technicalities or legal forms; and(b) may direct itself by the best evidence it can obtain, whether that evidence is admissible in a court or not.(5) On the hearing of the appeal, a Full Bench is to consider any reason given by a Commissioner for any determination.(6) The provisions of sections 16 , 22 , 23 , 25 , 26 and 27 of the Commissions of Inquiry Act 1995 apply in an appeal before the Full Bench as if (a) a reference to the Commission in those provisions were a reference to the Full Bench; and(b) a reference to a Commissioner in those provisions were a reference to a member of the Full Bench.
SCHEDULE 1 - Form
Form 1
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 11 December 2024
These regulations are administered in the Department of Justice.