Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00339:section:4:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2023C00339
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 4 (pt 2/4)
Character Range: 5914–8495

has been employment in a part‑time capacity.
category B employee means an employee other than a category A employee.
chief executive officer, in relation to an employing agency, means:
 (a) if the employing agency is an Agency within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999—the Agency Head (within the meaning of that Act); or
 (b) in any other case—the person (however described) who is the chief executive officer of the employing agency.
employee means a person who is to be taken, by virtue of section 10, to be employed in Government Service for the purposes of this Act.
employing agency means:
 (a) an Agency within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999; or
 (b) a public authority of the Commonwealth; or
 (c) a body covered by paragraph (6)(b); or
 (d) a company covered by paragraph (6)(c).
leave means leave of absence.
long service leave includes long leave, furlough, extended leave and any other leave in the nature of long service leave (howsoever referred to).
public authority of the Commonwealth means an authority established or constituted by or under a law of the Commonwealth or of the Australian Capital Territory, other than an ACT enactment.
retrenchment, in relation to an employee, means the compulsory termination of the service of the employee for the reason that:
 (a) his or her service or position is not necessary;
 (b) the work for which he or she was engaged is finished; or
 (c) a reduction in the number of employees is necessary because the quantity of work has diminished.
 (1A) If the employing agency (the original agency) in which a person was employed at the time of his or her ceasing to be an employee no longer exists at a later time, then the replacement agency at that later time is:
 (a) the employing agency that is responsible for the matter to which the person's duties related, or mainly related, at the time of his or her ceasing to be an employee; or
 (b) if there is no employing agency that is responsible for that matter—the employing agency that is nominated in writing by the Secretary of the Department.
 (2) Subject to section 13, a reference in this Act to employment in a qualifying service is a reference to employment in Government Service or in a service referred to in subsection 11(2).
 (3) For the purposes of references in this Act to a number of months (other than a reference to a number of completed months), the number of months shall be taken to be, where appropriate, a whole number and a fraction.
 (4) For the purposes of references in this Act to a number of years (other than a reference to a