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

Schedule 1   Flexible paid parental leave

Paid Parental Leave Act 2010

160   After section 92

Insert:

92A Effect of extending a person's continuous flexible period after review

(1) If:

(a) a person's continuous flexible period for a child ends; and

(b) later, a decision in relation to a payability determination for the person is made that has the effect that the person's continuous flexible period for the child is extended by an additional period of one or more flexible PPL days for the child; and

(c) one or more instalments that relate to instalment periods that overlap with the additional period would have been payable to the person on the paydays for the instalments if:

(i) the person's continuous flexible period for the child had always been the extended continuous flexible period; and

(ii) the Secretary had been required to pay the instalments; and

(d) the Secretary is not otherwise required to pay the instalments;

then the instalments referred to in paragraph (c) are taken to have become payable on the respective paydays for the instalments.