Source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2018C00451
Timestamp: 2019-03-19 03:25:28
Document Index: 299529601

Matched Legal Cases: ['art 3', 'art 4', 'art 12', 'art 5', 'art 6', 'art 7', 'art 8', 'art 40', 'art 9', 'art 10', 'art 11', 'art 57', 'art 12', 'art 5', 'art 6', 'art 7', 'art 10', 'art 8']

Details: C2018C00451
- C2018C00451
Act No. 11 of 2001 as amended, taking into account amendments up to Regulatory Powers (Standardisation Reform) Act 2017
sch 6 (items 1, 2)
Defence Legislation Amendment Act 2019 - C2019A00001
sch 2 (items 1-37)
C2018C00451
This is a compilation of the Defence Reserve Service (Protection) Act 2001 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 6 November 2018 (the compilation date).
9............ Meaning of dependant........................................................................ 7
10.......... Meaning of contract of employment.................................................... 8
Part 3—Which protections and benefits apply to the different kinds of defence service 10
11.......... Which protections and benefits apply to the different kinds of defence service 10
13.......... Call outs and operational service....................................................... 11
Part 4—Protection against discrimination because of defence service 12
Division 1—Overview of Part 12
14.......... Overview of Part............................................................................... 12
Division 2—Discrimination in employment 13
15.......... Refusing to employ a person............................................................. 13
16.......... Dismissing etc. an employee............................................................. 13
17.......... Hindering employee from serving in Reserves................................. 14
Division 3—Discrimination in partnerships 15
18.......... Refusing to offer partnership to another person etc........................... 15
18A....... Dissolving partnership etc................................................................. 15
19.......... Hindering fellow partner from serving in Reserves.......................... 16
Division 4—Discrimination against commission agents 18
20.......... Refusing to engage commission agent.............................................. 18
21.......... Terminating etc. contract for services................................................ 18
Division 5—Discrimination against contractors 20
22.......... Refusing to engage contractor........................................................... 20
23.......... Terminating etc. contract for services................................................ 20
Division 6—Harassment 22
23A....... Harassment....................................................................................... 22
23B....... Obligations of employers etc............................................................. 23
Part 5—Employment protection 25
24.......... Overview of Part............................................................................... 25
24A....... Meaning of absent on defence service............................................... 25
Division 2—Entitlement to be absent during defence service 26
25.......... No requirement to take leave during defence service......................... 26
26.......... Member entitled to be absent during defence service........................ 26
Division 3—Resuming work after defence service 28
27.......... Applying to resume work after defence service................................ 28
28.......... Employer must allow member to resume work................................. 28
28A....... Other rights to resume work not affected.......................................... 30
Division 4—Effect of defence service on particular entitlements of members 31
29.......... Which entitlements this Division applies to....................................... 31
30.......... Continuous full‑time defence service................................................ 31
31.......... Other defence service........................................................................ 32
Division 5—Termination of employment after resumption of employment etc. 33
32.......... Termination after resuming employment etc...................................... 33
Division 6—No additional obligations on employers 34
33.......... No additional obligations on employers............................................ 34
Part 6—Partnership protection 35
34.......... Overview of Part............................................................................... 35
35.......... Dissolving partnerships etc. involving a serving member................. 35
36.......... Dissolving partnerships etc. involving former member..................... 35
Part 7—Education protection 37
37.......... Overview of Part............................................................................... 37
38.......... Obligations of body administering education institution................... 37
39.......... Education institution must re‑enrol member etc................................. 38
Part 8—Financial liability protection 40
Division 1—Overview of Part 40
40.......... Overview of part............................................................................... 40
Division 2—Which financial liabilities this Part applies to 41
40A....... Meaning of financial arrangement................................................... 41
41.......... Financial liabilities that arise before start day of service.................... 41
42.......... Options exercised on or after start day of service.............................. 41
43.......... Rates etc. on land.............................................................................. 42
44.......... Part does not apply to security holder already exercising remedies... 43
45.......... Part does not apply to bankruptcy or insolvency of member or dependant 43
46.......... Part does not apply to trustees or representatives.............................. 44
47.......... Liability exists even if payment not yet due....................................... 44
48.......... Liability may have arisen before commencement of this Act............. 44
Division 3—Payments postponed and proceedings stayed 45
Subdivision A—Postponement 45
49.......... Payments postponed......................................................................... 45
50.......... Rescheduling payments..................................................................... 45
51.......... Rescheduling if member or dependant dies....................................... 46
52.......... Higher rate of interest not payable..................................................... 47
53.......... Interest payable on postponed payments under a financial arrangement 47
54.......... Interest payable on payment of postponed rates etc. on land............. 48
Subdivision B—Proceedings stayed 48
55.......... Proceedings stayed but rights not otherwise prejudiced.................... 48
Subdivision C—Court may order all or part of Division does not apply 49
56.......... Court may order that all or part of Division not apply....................... 49
Division 4—General matters 50
57.......... Powers of security holder not affected.............................................. 50
58.......... Instruments made on or after start day not affected........................... 50
59.......... Joint liability...................................................................................... 50
60.......... Postponement etc. not to be taken into account for purposes of statutes of limitations etc. 51
61.......... Certain rights of member or dependant preserved............................. 51
Part 9—Bankruptcy protection 52
62.......... Overview of Part............................................................................... 52
63.......... Bankruptcy proceedings against member or dependant not allowed. 52
64.......... Orders court may make relating to bankruptcy of member or dependant 52
Part 10—Loans and guarantees to returned members 54
65.......... Overview of Part............................................................................... 54
66.......... Prescribed authority may make loans and give guarantees................ 54
67.......... Amount of loan or guarantee............................................................. 54
68.......... Terms and conditions of loan or guarantee........................................ 54
69.......... Interest on loan.................................................................................. 55
70.......... Pre‑conditions for loan or guarantee................................................. 55
71.......... Review by Administrative Appeals Tribunal.................................... 55
72.......... Agreements between prescribed authorities and States etc................ 55
Part 11—Enforcement and remedies 57
Division 1A—Overview of Part 57
72A....... Overview of Part............................................................................... 57
Division 1B—Complaints and mediation 58
72B....... Complaints and mediation................................................................. 58
Division 1—Civil enforcement 59
73.......... Actions for loss or damage............................................................... 59
Division 2—Orders that courts may make 60
74.......... Orders for compensation after offence.............................................. 60
75.......... Injunctions........................................................................................ 60
76.......... Court may make other orders if transaction or proceeding in contravention of this Act 61
Division 3—Civil penalties 62
76A....... Civil penalty provisions.................................................................... 62
Division 4—Victimisation 63
76B....... Victimisation..................................................................................... 63
Part 12—Other matters 64
76C....... This Act does not limit other protections for members...................... 64
77.......... Jurisdiction of courts......................................................................... 64
78.......... Unincorporated bodies...................................................................... 64
78A....... Physical elements of offences........................................................... 65
78B....... Contravening an offence provision or a civil penalty provision........ 65
79.......... Delegation......................................................................................... 65
80.......... Severability: additional effect of Act................................................. 65
81.......... Regulations....................................................................................... 66
(5) Part 5 sets out the consequences for a member’s employment if he or she was employed when he or she started to render defence service. This Part applies to all kinds of defence service.
(6) Part 6 protects members from having their partnerships dissolved while the members are absent on defence service. This Part applies to all kinds of defence service.
(7) Part 7 requires an education institution to make reasonable adjustments for a member who undertakes defence service.
(10) Part 10 allows for a member who has rendered defence service as a result of a call out to get access to loans and guarantees to enable him or her to resume civilian life after returning from that service.
absent on defence service has the meaning given by section 24A and subsections 28(3) and (4).
defence service means service (including training) as a member of the Reserves.
dependant of a member who is or was rendering continuous full time service to which Part 8, 9 or 10 applies (see section 13) means:
(b) a person who was wholly or partly dependent on the member for financial support immediately before the start day of the service; or
(c) a person who became, or becomes, wholly or partly dependent on the member for financial support while the member was or is rendering the service; or
(e) if the member died while rendering the service—the widow or widower of the member.
(1) This Part applies in relation to all kinds of defence service.
(1) This section applies if a member is employed by a person under a contract of employment that allows the member any type of paid or unpaid leave.
(1) A member who is absent from his or her employment while absent on defence service may apply to the employer to resume work under the member’s contract of employment. An application must be in writing (unless the employer waives that requirement).
(3) The member must apply to the employer or new employer no later than 30 days after ceasing to render defence service.
(a) allow the member to resume work, or reinstate the member in employment, in the same capacity in which the member was employed immediately before the start of the member’s absence on defence service; and
(1) This section applies if a member resumes work, or is reinstated in employment, under this Part after rendering continuous full time defence service.
(2) The entitlements in relation to the member’s employment in respect of the period of the absence on defence service must be no less beneficial than they would have been if the member had been absent on leave without pay from the employment during that period.
(a) the period of employment under the contract of employment with the old employer is taken to have been served under the contract of employment entered into on the reinstatement; and
(c) the continuity of the period of employment under the contract of employment with the old employer with the period of employment that commenced on the reinstatement is taken not to have been broken by the member’s absence on defence service.
(2) Essentially, many liabilities of a member or dependant that would otherwise fall due after the member starts rendering defence service are postponed. A liability may, for example, relate to principal or interest under a loan or the purchase price of something that the member or dependant has agreed to buy. Generally, the liability must have arisen before the start day of the service.
(1) This Part does not apply to a liability of a member or his or her dependant to make a payment under a financial arrangement if, while liable to make the payment, the member or dependant:
(1) The time for making a payment under a financial arrangement to which this Part applies is, by force of this section, postponed in accordance with this Division.
(1) If a financial arrangement to which this Part applies allows interest to be paid or accepted at a reduced or lower rate if it is paid on or before the due date, interest remains payable at the reduced or lower rate even if (because of this Division) it is not so paid.
(1) Interest is payable by the member or dependant on a payment under a financial arrangement that is postponed under this Division until the payment is made.
(a) the rate or rates specified in the financial arrangement concerned before the interest falls due; or
(b) if no rate of interest is specified in the financial arrangement—the rate worked out in accordance with the regulations as in force at the start of the start day of the member’s defence service.
(a) at the times specified in the financial arrangement for paying interest; or
(3) The rate of the interest is the rate worked out in accordance with the regulations as in force at the start of the start day of the member’s defence service.
This Part does not affect the power of a security holder under a financial arrangement to which this Part applies to enforce the holder’s rights against the member or dependant if:
(a) the security holder was, or is, in possession of the security at the start day of the member’s defence service; or
(b) if the security is land—the security holder has appointed or appoints a receiver who, at the start day of the member’s defence service, was, or is:
(a) any instrument concerning a financial arrangement to which this Part applies that is made on or after the start day of the defence service of the member concerned; or
(1) If a member or his or her dependant is liable jointly with one or more others to make a payment under a financial arrangement, this Part applies to the member’s or dependant’s liability in the same way as it would apply if the member or dependant were solely liable.
preservation period means the combined consecutive periods of the member’s absence on defence service (disregarding paragraph 24A(c)) and the member’s protected period.
(2) Essentially, the Part protects members from bankruptcy proceedings while the member is rendering defence service.
(1) During a member’s protected period, a bankruptcy notice must not be issued, and a creditor’s petition must not be presented, in relation to the member or a dependant of the member if the notice or petition relates to a debt that arose before the start day of the relevant defence service.
(2) Essentially, the Part allows for a member who has rendered defence service to get access to loans and guarantees to enable him or her to resume civilian life after returning from that service.
(1) A person who suffers loss or damage because another person contravenes, or was involved in contravening, a provision of this Act may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to recover the amount of the loss or damage from the other person. This is so even if the other person did not commit an offence (if the contravention is also an offence) or a civil penalty order has not been made against the person (if the provision is a civil penalty provision).
(3) An action under subsection (1) may only be begun within 4 years after the day on which the cause of action arose.
(2) However, this Act does not confer any criminal jurisdiction on the Federal Court of Australia or the Federal Circuit Court of Australia.
The Chief of the Defence Force may, by signed writing, delegate all or any of his or her powers and functions under this Act to an officer (within the meaning of the Defence Act 1903).
19 Apr 2001 (s 2)
Sch 2 (item 29): 19 April 2001 (s 2(1) item 10
Sch 3 (item 19): 1 July 2004 (s 2(1))
2 Mar 2006 (s 2)
Sch 8 (item 117) and Sch 14: 1 July 2014 (s 2(1) items 6, 14)
Sch 2 (items 36–44, 80): 1 July 2016 (s 2(1) item 2)
Sch 4 (items 1, 131–133): 10 Mar 2016 (s 2(1) item 6)
Sch 2 (items 20–23): 21 Oct 2016 (s 2(1) item 1)
Sch 2 (items 1–73, 75–110): 27 Nov 2017 (s 2(1) items 3–5, 7)
Sch 2 (items 10, 43, 72, 100, 110)
Sch 6 (item 1): repealed before commencing (s 2(1) item 3)
Sch 6 (items 2, 3): 6 Nov 2018 (s 2(1) item 3)
Sch 2 (item 74): 6 Nov 2018 (s 2(1) item 6)
am No 117, 2017
am No 3, 2006; No 62, 2014; No 164, 2015; No 117, 2017
rep No 117, 2017
rs No 52, 2004
am No 3, 2006; No 164, 2015; No 117, 2017
am No 135, 2003; No 164, 2015
am No 3, 2006; No 164, 2015
rs No 117, 2017
am No 4, 2016; No 61, 2016; No 117, 2017
ad No 117, 2017
s 76C...................................
s 78B...................................