Paid Parental Leave Amendment (Flexibility Measures) Act 2020 (53 of 2020)

Schedule 2   Transitional, application and saving provisions

3   Post-commencement day claims for parental leave pay

(1) The PPL Act, as amended by Schedule 1 to this Act, applies in relation to a claim for parental leave pay for a child made on or after the commencement day.

(2) However, if the claim is an effective claim for parental leave pay in relation to the maximum PPL period for the child and the child is born before the commencement day, the amendments of the PPL Act made by the following items of Schedule 1 to this Act are taken not to apply in relation to the claim for the purposes of the Secretary making a payability determination under section 13, 14, 15, 16 or 17 on the claim:

(a) item 40;

(b) item 41;

(c) item 51;

(d) item 56;

(e) item 58;

(f) item 62;

(g) item 68;

(h) item 72;

(i) item 95;

(j) item 107;

(k) item 109;

(l) any other item specified in the rules.

Note: The Secretary cannot make a payability determination in relation to a claim for parental leave pay for a flexible PPL day for the child if the child was born before 1 July 2020 (see section 19A of the PPL Act, as inserted by Schedule 1 to this Act).

(3) The following provisions of the PPL Act, as in force on the commencement day, apply in relation to this item as if it 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).