Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00120:section:140:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00120
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 140 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 542098–544641

also applies in relation to an employee:
 (a) whose employer is a government body; and
 (b) whose duties of employment are performed in a police service.
 (2) For the purposes of this section, the distance, by the shortest practicable surface route, between a location (in this subsection referred to as the tested location) and the centre point of an eligible urban area is:
 (a) where there is only one location within the eligible urban area from which distances between the eligible urban area and other places are usually measured—the distance, by the shortest practicable surface route, between the tested location and that location; and
 (b) where there are 2 or more locations within the eligible urban area from which distances between parts of the eligible urban area and other places are usually measured—the distance, by the shortest practicable surface route, between the tested location and the one of those locations that is in the principal one of those parts.
 (2A) In applying subsection (2), if the shortest practicable surface route between the tested location and the location mentioned in that subsection includes a route by water, the distance between those locations is taken to be the amount worked out using the following formula:
 (3) In this section:
census population, in relation to an urban centre, means the census count on an actual location basis of the population of that urban centre specified in the results of the Census of Population and Housing taken by the Australian Statistician on 30 June 1981, being the results published by the Australian Statistician in the document entitled "Persons and Dwellings in Local Government Areas and Urban Centres".
surface route means a route other than an air route.
urban centre means an area that is described as an urban centre or bounded locality in the results of the Census of Population and Housing taken by the Australian Statistician on 30 June 1981, being the results published by the Australian Statistician in the document entitled "Persons and Dwellings in Local Government Areas and Urban Centres".
 (4) If, but for this subsection, the whole or any part of a provision of this Act or of the Fringe Benefits Tax Act 1986 would be invalid by reason of the enactment of paragraph (1)(a) of this section, this Act has effect as if that paragraph were omitted and the following paragraph were substituted:
 "(a) a reference to an eligible urban area is a reference to an area that is an urban centre with a census population of not less than 14,000; and".