Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L00082:reg:8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L00082
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8
Character Range: 6108–9029

8  DEE (Biosecurity) Agreement
 (1) DEE (Biosecurity) Agreement means the DEE Agreement, as in force immediately before the commencement of this instrument, as that Agreement has effect under this section.

DEE Agreement—general
 (2) The DEE Agreement has effect as if:
 (a) a reference in the DEE Agreement to an employee in the Department of the Environment and Energy covered by that Agreement were a reference to an APS employee to which this Part applies; and
 (b) a reference in the DEE Agreement to the Department were a reference to the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment; and
 (c) the following provisions of the DEE Agreement were omitted:
 (i) clause 1.5 (nominal expiry date);
 (ii) the second sentence of clause 6.10 (approval of at least one period of at least 5 consecutive days of annual leave per calendar year); and
 (d) the following provisions of the DAWR Agreement, as that Agreement has effect under subsections (5) to (9) of this section, were included in the DEE Agreement:
 (i) clause 3.11 (definition of ordinary rate of pay);
 (ii) clause 3.14 (definition of shift worker);
 (iii) clause 20.12 (when flex‑time arrangements are not available);
 (iv) clause 34.1 (classification structure);
 (v) clause 34.2 (classification structure barriers);
 (vi) clause 34.3 (transitional arrangements);
 (vii) clause 34.4 (on‑plant veterinarian (OPV) induction);
 (viii) clause 34.6 (APS 3 to APS 4 biosecurity broadband);
 (ix) table 2 in Schedule 1 (veterinarian classification and salaries);
 (x) table 5 in Schedule 1 (on‑plant veterinarian induction salaries);
 (xi) clause 1 of Schedule 2 (transitional arrangements);
 (xii) table 1 in Schedule 2.

Substitution of DEE Agreement provisions
 (3) The DEE Agreement has effect as if:
 (a) each provision of the DEE Agreement specified in column 1 of an item of the following table were omitted and substituted with the updated provision specified in column 2 of that item; and
 (b) the columns of the table in Schedule 1 to the DEE Agreement (classification structure and pay rates) dealing with pay rates for classifications were omitted and substituted with the column dealing with salary rates for those classifications headed "2% increase ‑ 30 November 2019" in Table 1 of the Schedule of the DEE Salaries and Allowances Determination; and
 (c) the columns of the table in Schedule 2 to the DEE Agreement (allowances) dealing with allowance rates were omitted and substituted with the column headed "2% increase ‑ 30 November 2019" in Table 2 in the Schedule to the DEE Salaries and Allowances Determination.

Provisions of the DEE Agreement being substituted with updated provisions
                                                                           Column 1                           Column 2

Item                                                                       Provision of DEE Agreement         Updated provision