Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2009 (1)
Notice No. 1 of 2009.
I, JULIA GILLARD, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, make this Notice under subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988.
Dated 6 August 2009
(signed) J Gillard
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
1 Name of Notice
This Notice is the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation (Definition of Employee) Notice 2009 (1).
2 Commencement
This Notice commences on the day after it is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.
3 Declaration
For the purposes of subsection 5(6) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRC Act), I declare that:
(a) the class of persons specified in Column 1 of the Schedule, being persons who engage in the activities or perform acts specified in Column 2 of the Schedule, at the request or direction, or for the benefit, of the Commonwealth, shall be taken to be employed by the Commonwealth; and
(b) the employment of such persons shall, for those purposes, be taken to be constituted by the performance by such persons of the acts or activities specified in Column 2 of the Schedule.
Schedule
Class of persons
Class of acts
Members of emergency response teams, appointed under the authority of the Attorney‑General, who are operating at the direction of Emergency Management Australia, a division of the Attorney General’s Department.
All acts within Australia and overseas, including training activities, performed in connection with a response to emergencies and their aftermath, where the assistance of the Australian Government has been requested.