Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00095:section:3:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00095
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 3/3)
Character Range: 12506–13720

an instrument under subsection (1A) may relate to employment matters.
 (1C) Subsection (1B) does not limit subsection (1A).
 (1D) An instrument under subsection (1A) has no effect in relation to a reporting period unless it is made before the first day of that period.
 (4) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to require a relevant employer to take any action incompatible with the principle that employment matters should be dealt with on the basis of merit.
 (5) For the purposes of this Act, an elected employee organisation official is taken to be employed by the employee organisation, and not by any other employer, and this subsection has effect even if the rules of the employee organisation have an effect contrary to this subsection, or do not deal with the question at all.
 (6) For the purposes of this Act, during any time when a Group Training Scheme:
 (a) is receiving funding support from the Commonwealth Government; and
 (b) has placed a trainee in employment with a host employer; and
 (c) pays the trainee, and receives payments from the host employer, for the services rendered by the trainee to the host employer;
the trainee is taken to be employed by the Scheme and not by the host employer.