Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014 (14 of 2014)

Schedule 10   Reduction of period for temporary absence from Australia

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

14   Application provision

(1) The amendments made by items 9 to 13 apply in relation to a person's eligibility for parental leave pay and dad and partner pay for a child born on or after 1 July 2014. For this purpose, it does not matter whether an absence from Australia began before, on or after 1 July 2014.

(2) The following provisions of the Paid Parental Leave Act 2010 apply in relation to this item as if this item were a provision of that Act:

(a) section 275 (which deals with how that Act applies to an adopted child);

(b) section 276 (which deals with how that Act applies to claims made in exceptional circumstances);

(c) section 277A (which deals with how that Act applies to claims for dad and partner pay made in prescribed circumstances).