Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997

This section applies in relation to a person who was an employee of the Snowy Mountains Hydro‑electric Authority immediately before the corporatisation date if, at that time, the employee’s period of service for the purposes of the Long Service Leave Act was less than 10 years.

This section does not apply in relation to an employee who dies while in the employment of a Snowy hydro‑group company. Section 29 covers such employees.

If the employee continues to be employed by a Snowy hydro‑group company on or after the corporatisation date until his or her combined service period is at least 10 years, the hydro‑group company may grant the employee long service leave on full salary for a period up to the employee’s long service leave credit under subsection 30(1).

If:

the employee stops being an employee of a Snowy hydro‑group company, on or after reaching the minimum retirement age, or because of retrenchment; and

the employee’s combined service period at the time when he or she stops being an employee of a hydro‑group company is at least one year;

If a period of long service leave may be granted to an employee under subsection (3) or (4), the hydro‑group company may, if the employee asks in writing, grant the employee long service leave on half salary for a period that is not more than twice the first‑mentioned period.

Long service leave granted in the circumstances set out in subsection (4) is to be taken so as to end immediately before the employee stops being an employee.

For the purposes of this section, the rate of salary to be used in working out the full salary of an employee is the rate that would be applicable to the employee under section 20 of the Long Service Leave Act if:

that section applied to the employee; and

for the expression “section 16 or 17” in that section there were substituted the expression “section 27 of the Snowy Hydro Corporatisation Act 1997”.