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Does not include amendments by:Industrial Relations Amendment (Jurisdiction of Industrial Relations Commission) Act 2009 No 32 (amended by Industrial Relations Further Amendment (Jurisdiction of Industrial Relations Commission) Act 2009 No 87) (not commenced)Industrial Relations Amendment (Industrial Court) Act 2016 No 48 (not commenced — to commence on 8.12.2016)

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1 Name of Act, commencement and construction 22 Interpretation 23 Annual holidays with pay 44 Holiday pay where holiday is not taken 5

4A Annual close-down 64B Protection of annual holiday entitlements on transfer of business 7

5 Special provisions—annual holidays otherwise than under this Act 76 Commencement of employment 87 Worker in employment at commencement of Act 88 Contracting out prohibited 89 Employers to keep holiday record 8

10 Powers of inspectors 810A Disclosure of information 9

11 Penalty 912 Proceedings for recovery of penalties 913 Recovery of holiday pay 1014 Provisions as to enforcement of orders, appeals etc 1015 Regulations 11

Historical notesTable of amending instruments 12Table of amendments 14


New South Wales

An Act to provide for annual holidays for workers; to amend the Industrial Arbitration Act 1940and certain other Acts; and for purposes connected therewith.


Annual Holidays Act 1944 No 31 [NSW]

1 Name of Act, commencement and construction

(1) This Act may be cited as the Annual Holidays Act 1944.

(2) This Act shall commence upon a day to be appointed by the Governor and notifiedby proclamation published in the Gazette.

(3) This Act shall be read and construed subject to the Commonwealth of AustraliaConstitution Act, and so as not to exceed the legislative power of the State to theintent that where any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any personor circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of suchprovision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected.

2 Interpretation

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates or requires:Agreement means an enterprise agreement within the meaning of the IndustrialRelations Act 1996.Award means an award within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.Employer means any person employing any worker or workers and includes theCrown.Inspector means an inspector appointed under the Industrial Relations Act 1996.Ordinary pay, in relation to any worker, means remuneration for the worker’s normalweekly number of hours of work calculated at the ordinary time rate of pay; and,where the worker is provided with board or lodging by his or her employer, includesthe cash value of that board or lodging.Week, in relation to any worker, means the worker’s ordinary working week.Worker means person employed, whether on salary or wages or piecework rates, oras a member of a butty-gang, and the fact that a person is working under a contractfor labour only, or substantially for labour only, or as lessee of any tools or otherimplements of production, or as an outworker, or is working as a salesperson,canvasser, collector, commercial traveller, insurance agent, or in any other capacityin which the person is paid wholly or partly by commission, shall not in itself preventsuch person being held to be a worker.

(2) For the purposes of the definition of the term ordinary pay in subsection (1):(a) the term ordinary time rate of pay in the case of a worker who is remunerated

in relation to an ordinary time rate of pay fixed by the terms of the worker’semployment means the time rate of pay so fixed for the worker’s work underthe terms of the worker’s employment, including shift allowances relating toordinary time and weekend penalties relating to ordinary time the workerwould have worked on days other than public holidays if the worker had notbeen on annual holidays, but does not include any other amount payable to theworker in respect of shift work, overtime or penalty rates, and where two ormore time rates of pay are so fixed means the higher or highest of those rates,

(a1) where a worker is remunerated otherwise than in relation to an ordinary timerate of pay so fixed, or partly in relation to an ordinary time rate of pay so fixedand partly in relation to any other manner, or where no ordinary time rate ofpay is so fixed for a worker’s work under the terms of the worker’semployment, the worker’s ordinary pay shall be deemed to be the averageweekly wage earned by the worker during the period actually worked by theworker during the period of twelve months immediately preceding the annualholiday or, as the case may be, during the period of employment in respect ofwhich a right to payment under section 4 (3) or under section 4A accrues.For the purposes of this paragraph the average weekly wage earned by aworker shall be the average of the amounts received by the worker each week

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under the terms of the worker’s employment including shift allowancesrelating to ordinary time and weekend penalties relating to ordinary time theworker would have worked on days other than public holidays if the workerhad not been on annual holiday, and excluding any other amount payable tothe worker in respect of shift work, overtime or penalty rates,

(a2) where during the period of twelve months immediately preceding the annualholiday or, as the case may be, during the period of employment in respect ofwhich a right to payment under section 4 (3) or under section 4A accrues theworker has received under the terms of the worker’s employment, any amountunder any bonus, incentive or other similar scheme (other than any amounttaken into consideration in assessing an average weekly wage in terms ofparagraph (a1)) the worker’s ordinary pay shall be increased by a further sumnamely the sum which the worker would have received each week in respectof such bonus, incentive or other similar scheme had such amount been paidby equal weekly payments throughout that period,

(b) where no normal weekly number of hours is fixed for a worker under the termsof the worker’s employment, the normal weekly number of hours of work shallbe deemed to be the average weekly number of hours worked by the workerduring the applicable period referred to in paragraph (a1),

(c) the cash value of any board or lodging provided for a worker shall be deemedto be its cash value as fixed by or under the terms of the worker’s employmentor, if it is not so fixed, shall be computed at the rate of three dollars, or suchgreater sum as may be prescribed in lieu thereof, a week for board and onedollar, or such greater sum as may be prescribed in lieu thereof, a week forlodging.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in subsection (2) (a1) or (a2), for the purposesof the definition of the term ordinary pay in subsection (1), where a worker isremunerated partly in relation to an ordinary time rate of pay fixed by the terms ofthe worker’s employment and partly in relation to a bonus, incentive or other similarscheme, the worker’s ordinary pay shall be deemed to be the sum of:(a) the worker’s weekly remuneration at the ordinary time rate of pay so fixed at

the commencement of the annual holiday or, as the case may be, at the end ofthe period of employment in respect of which a right to payment under section4 (3) or section 4A, accrues,

(b) the average of the amounts received by the worker each week in respect of thebonus, incentive or other similar scheme:(i) during the period actually worked by the worker during the twelve

months immediately preceding the commencement of the worker’sannual holiday, or

(ii) during the period of employment in respect of which a right to paymentunder section 4 (3) or section 4A accrues,

as the case may be, and(c) shift allowances relating to ordinary time and weekend penalties relating to

ordinary time the worker would have worked on days other than publicholidays if the worker had not been on annual holiday,

but excluding any other amounts paid to the worker in respect of shift work, overtimeor penalty rates.

(4) For the purposes of subsections (2) (a1), (2) (b) and (3), in computing the periodactually worked by a worker no regard shall be had to any period during which, onaccount of illness or injury, the worker was temporarily assigned to duties or workentitling the worker to payment of wages lower than the wages the worker wouldhave received had the worker not been assigned to those duties or that work on that

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account, unless the worker was assigned to those duties or that work during the wholeof the period actually worked by the worker.

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2) (a), (2) (a1) or (3), where by anyaward or agreement a worker is entitled to shift allowances relating to ordinary timeor weekend penalties relating to ordinary time the worker would have worked ondays other than public holidays if the worker had not been on annual holiday or to anannual holiday loading, whichever is the greater, the ordinary time rate of pay or theordinary pay, as the case may be, of that worker shall not, in respect of any annualholiday to which the worker is entitled under this Act, include those allowances andpenalties.

(6) Despite anything to the contrary in this section, the ordinary pay of a worker is notto include or be increased by the amounts paid under any bonus, incentive or othersimilar scheme if the annual amount of the worker’s ordinary pay (excluding anyamounts so paid) exceeds the amount prescribed by the regulations for the purposesof this subsection.

3 Annual holidays with pay

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, every worker shall at the end of each yearof the worker’s employment by an employer become entitled to an annual holiday onordinary pay.

Such annual holiday shall:(a) where any such year of employment ends upon or before 30 November 1974,

be of three weeks,(b) where any such year of employment ends after 30 November 1974, be of four

weeks.

(2) An annual holiday shall be given and taken either in one consecutive period or twoperiods which shall be of three weeks and one week respectively, or if the worker andthe employer so agree, in either two, three or four separate periods and not otherwise.

(3) If the worker and the employer so agree, the annual holiday or any of such separateperiods may be taken wholly or partly in advance before the worker has becomeentitled to the annual holiday.

(4) The annual holiday shall be given by the employer and shall be taken by the workerbefore the expiration of a period of six months after the date upon which the right tosuch holiday accrues: Provided that the giving and taking of the whole or anyseparate period of such annual holiday may, with the consent in writing of theIndustrial Registrar, or Deputy Industrial Registrar appointed under the IndustrialRelations Act 1996, be postponed for a period to be specified by such Registrar in anycase where he or she is of opinion that circumstances render such postponementnecessary or desirable.

(5) Except as provided in section 4 or section 4A, payment shall not be made by anemployer to a worker in lieu of any annual holiday or part thereof to which theworker is entitled under this Act nor shall any such payment be accepted by theworker.

(6) (a) The employer shall give each worker at least one month’s notice of the datefrom which the worker’s annual holiday shall be taken.

(b) The employer shall pay each worker in advance before the commencement ofthe worker’s annual holiday, the worker’s ordinary pay for the holiday period.

(7) Where the annual holiday or any part thereof has been taken before the right to theannual holiday has accrued the right to a further annual holiday shall not commence

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to accrue until after the expiration of the year of employment in respect of which theannual holiday or part has been so taken.

(8) Where any special or public holiday for which the worker is entitled to paymentunder any Act, award or agreement or under the worker’s contract of employment,occurs during any period of an annual holiday taken by a worker under this section,the period of the holiday shall be increased by one day in respect of that special orpublic holiday.

4 Holiday pay where holiday is not taken

(1) Where the employment of a worker who has become entitled to one or more annualholidays provided by this Act is terminated, the employer shall be deemed to havegiven the holiday or holidays (except so much, if any, as has already been taken) tothe worker as from the date of termination of the employment, and shall forthwithpay to the worker, in addition to all other amounts due to the worker, the worker’sordinary pay for the period of the holiday or holidays.

(2) Subsection (1) applies to and in respect of an annual holiday (except so much, if any,as has already been taken) whether or not the worker concerned continues to beentitled (apart from this section) to take it, and so applies as if the worker’s right totake it had accrued immediately before the date of the termination of the worker’semployment.

(2A) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) affects the obligation of an employer to give, or aworker to take, annual holidays in accordance with section 3.

(3) (a) This subsection applies with respect to every period of employment of aworker by any employer which is less than one year, such period beingcomputed from the date of the commencement of the employment or (wherethe worker has during the employment become entitled to any annual holidayor holidays under section 3) computed from the date upon which the workerbecame entitled to that annual holiday, or to the last annual holiday, as the casemay be.

(b) Where the employment of any worker by any employer is terminated at theend of a period of employment to which this subsection applies, the employershall forthwith pay to the worker, in addition to all other amounts due to theworker, an amount:(i) where that period of employment ends upon or before 30 November

1974, equal to three forty-ninths of the worker’s ordinary pay for thatperiod of employment,

(ii) where that period of employment ends after 30 November 1974, equalto one twelfth of the worker’s ordinary pay for that period ofemployment.

(4) Where the annual holiday under section 3 or any part thereof has been taken inadvance by a worker pursuant to subsection (3) of that section, and(a) the employment of the worker is terminated before the worker has completed

the year of employment in respect of which such annual holiday or part wastaken, and

(b) the sum paid by the employer to the worker as ordinary pay for the annualholiday or part so taken in advance exceeds the sum which the employer isrequired to pay to the worker under subsection (3) of this section,

the employer shall not be liable to make any payment to the worker under subsection(3) of this section, and shall be entitled to deduct the amount of such excess from anyremuneration payable to the worker upon the termination of the employment.

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4A Annual close-down

(1) (a) In this section:Period of employment means the period during which a worker is employedby an employer referred to in subsection (2), being a period computed:(a) where the worker has not during the employment with that employer

become entitled to any annual holiday under section 3, from the date ofcommencement of the employment with that employer, or

(b) where the worker has during the employment with that employerbecome entitled to any annual holiday or holidays under section 3, fromthe date upon which the worker last became entitled to an annualholiday,

up to the commencement of the specified period affecting that worker.Specified period means the period specified by an employer pursuant tosubsection (2).

(b) This section, subsections (2) and (3) excepted, shall apply only to a worker towhom notice has been given pursuant to this section.

(c) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 3 shall not apply to a worker to whom noticehas been given pursuant to this section.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), an employer may give notice to a worker employed in anypart of the employer’s establishment that, during a period specified when giving thatnotice, that establishment or part will be temporarily closed (or reduced to a nucleus)for the purposes of giving an annual holiday or leave without pay to the workers towhom such notice has been given.

(3) Notice pursuant to subsection (2):(a) shall be given to a worker not less than one month before the commencement

of the specified period or, in the case of a worker who commencesemployment less than one month before the commencement of the specifiedperiod, on the day the worker commences employment, and

(b) shall not be given by an employer more than once in any calendar year.

(4) Where, immediately before the commencement of the specified period, a worker isnot entitled under section 3 to any holiday:(a) the worker shall be given and shall take leave without pay for the specified

period, and(b) the worker shall, in addition, be paid:

(i) three forty-ninths of the worker’s ordinary pay for the worker’s periodof employment where the specified period commences upon or before30 November 1974, and one twelfth of the worker’s ordinary pay wherethe specified period commences after that date, and

(ii) the worker’s ordinary pay for any special or public holiday, during theperiod of the worker’s leave without pay, for which the worker wouldbe entitled to payment under any Act, award or agreement or under theworker’s contract of employment.

(5) Where, immediately before the commencement of the specified period, a worker isunder section 3 entitled to a holiday of a duration less than that of the specifiedperiod:(a) the worker shall be given and shall take the whole of that holiday during the

specified period,(b) the worker shall be given and shall take leave without pay for the balance of

the specified period, and

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(c) the worker shall, in addition, be paid the amounts referred to in subsection (4)(b).

(6) Where, immediately before the commencement of the specified period, a worker isunder section 3 entitled to a holiday of a duration not less than that of the specifiedperiod:(a) the worker shall, on and from the commencement of the specified period, be

given and shall take the whole of that holiday, or(b) where the worker and the employer so agree, the worker shall, on and from the

commencement of the specified period, be given and shall take part of his orher holiday for a period not less than the specified period and postpone thetaking of the balance of his or her holiday until a time to be agreed uponbetween the worker and the employer.

(7) Where payment has been made to a worker pursuant to subsection (4) or (5) theworker shall be deemed:(a) to have completed a year of employment for the purposes of this Act

immediately before the commencement of the specified period, and(b) to have been given the whole of the annual holiday to which the worker would

be entitled for that year of employment.

4B Protection of annual holiday entitlements on transfer of business

Part 8 of Chapter 2 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 applies for the purposes ofdetermining a worker’s entitlements under this Act when the worker is employed byan employer as a result of the transfer of business (within the meaning of that Part)to that employer from another employer on or after the commencement of thissection.

5 Special provisions—annual holidays otherwise than under this Act

(1) The following provisions shall apply in every case where provision is made by anaward, agreement or contract of employment for annual holidays or annual leave forany worker:(a) where the worker is entitled under such provision to any benefit that is more

favourable to the worker than the benefits provided by section 3, section 4 orsection 4A, as the case may be, that section shall not apply to the worker,

(b) where the worker is entitled under any such provision to any benefit that is notmore favourable to the worker than the benefits provided by section 3, section4 or section 4A, as the case may be, that section shall apply to the worker andno benefit shall be allowed to the worker under that provision in respect of anyperiod of employment after the commencement of this Act in the case of abenefit not more favourable than that provided by section 3 or section 4 or,after the commencement of the Annual Holidays (Amendment) Act 1967, inthe case of a benefit not more favourable than that provided by section 4A.

(1A) Where provision is made by or under any Act, other than this Act or the IndustrialRelations Act 1996, for annual holidays or annual leave for any worker, sections 3and 4 shall not apply to such worker.

(2) Where, under any award or agreement, provision is made for the granting to a workerwho is a seven-day shift worker and is required to work regularly on Sundays andpublic holidays of a holiday in addition to that granted to other workers under suchaward or agreement or where, under any award or agreement, provision is made forthe payment of a sum of money as an annual holiday loading:

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(a) such additional holiday or such payment, as the case may be, shall not beregarded as a benefit under that award or agreement for the purposes ofsubsection (1), and

(b) the right of the worker to such additional holiday or such payment, as the casemay be, shall not be affected by anything contained in this Act.

6 Commencement of employment

The employment of a worker employed at the date of the commencement of this Actshall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have commenced on that date.

7 Worker in employment at commencement of Act

(1) Where provision is made by or under any Act, other than this Act, or by any award,agreement or contract of employment in force at the commencement of this Act, foran annual holiday for any worker who is in employment at such commencement, andthe worker has not at such date completed the qualifying period of employmentwhich would entitle the worker to such annual holiday, the worker shall be entitledto receive an annual holiday of a period which bears the same proportion to the periodof annual holiday specified in that provision as the portion of such qualifying periodduring which the worker has been employed immediately before the commencementof this Act bears to the whole of such qualifying period.

(2) Where provision is made by or under any Act, other than this Act, or by any award,agreement or contract of employment in force at the commencement of this Act foran annual holiday for any worker who is in employment at such commencement, andthe worker has before such commencement become entitled under that provision tosuch annual holiday but has not taken the same, the worker’s right to such annualholiday shall not be affected by anything contained in this Act.

8 Contracting out prohibited

(1) The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding any stipulation to thecontrary whether made before or after the commencement of this Act.

(2) No contract or agreement made or entered into either before or after thecommencement of this Act shall operate to annul or vary or exclude any of theprovisions of this Act.

9 Employers to keep holiday record

Every employer shall keep or cause to be kept a holiday record in a form approvedby the Minister for a period of at least 6 years after the last entry therein.

10 Powers of inspectors

(1) Every inspector shall have power at any reasonable times:(a) to enter, inspect and examine the premises of any employer or any premises in

which the inspector has reasonable cause to believe that any person isemployed,

(b) to require an employer to produce, at such time and place as the inspector mayspecify, the holiday record required to be kept under this Act,

(c) to make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertainwhether the provisions of this Act have been complied with,

(d) to exercise all other powers that may be necessary to ensure the carrying outof the provisions of this Act.

(2) No inspector shall have any authority under this Act to enter those portions of abuilding which are used exclusively for the purposes of a private dwelling.

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(3) Where a worker claims that an employer has not paid the full amount of anyremuneration or payment which has become due to the worker under this Act, aninspector may, by notice in writing served personally or by post, require theemployer to deliver or to send by post to the inspector, within such time and to suchplace as are specified in the notice:(a) a copy of such specified part of the holiday record required to be kept under

this Act, and(b) such other information of a specified kind relating to that remuneration or

payment,as the inspector considers necessary in order to investigate the claim.

(4) A public servant authorised in that behalf by the Under Secretary of the Departmentof Industrial Relations may exercise the power conferred on an inspector bysubsection (3).

10A Disclosure of information

(1) Subject to subsection (2), a person who is, or was at any time, an inspector or a publicservant authorised under section 10 (4) shall not disclose any information relating toany manufacturing or commercial secrets or working processes and obtained by theperson in connection with the administration or execution of this Act or theregulations made thereunder.

(2) Subsection (1) does not operate to prevent the disclosure of information where thatdisclosure is:(a) made in connection with the administration or execution of this Act or the

regulations made thereunder,(b) made with the prior permission of the Minister, or(c) ordered by a court, or by any other body or person authorised by law to

examine witnesses, in the course of, and for the purpose of, the hearing anddetermination by that court, body or person of any matter or thing.

(3) The Minister may grant the permission referred to in subsection (2) (b) only if theMinister is satisfied that to do so would be in the public interest.

11 Penalty

(1) Every person who contravenes or fails to comply in any respect with any provisionof this Act shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.

(2) Every person who:(a) makes any false or misleading statement in, or any material omission from,

any holiday record which the person is required to keep, or(b) obstructs any inspector in the exercise of the inspector’s powers under this

Act, or(c) fails to comply with any requirement or direction lawfully given by an

inspector under this Act or to furnish any information lawfully demandedunder this Act by an inspector,

shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.

(3) In this section, inspector includes a public servant authorised under section 10 (4).

12 Proceedings for recovery of penalties

(1) Proceedings for the recovery of a penalty under this Act are to be taken before theLocal Court or before the Industrial Relations Commission in Court Session and maybe taken by:

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(a) an inspector, or(b) the secretary of an industrial organisation whose members are engaged in the

industry concerned, or(c) a person whose rights are impaired.

(2) In any such proceedings the Local Court or Industrial Relations Commission in CourtSession may, in addition to the imposition of any penalty, make such an order withrespect to any remuneration or payment due to a worker under this Act as might havebeen made in proceedings taken under section 13. Such order may be made withoutmotion and shall be a bar to further proceedings under section 13 in respect of suchremuneration or payment.

(3) In any proceedings under this section the Local Court or Industrial RelationsCommission in Court Session before which such proceedings are taken may awardcosts to either party and assess the amount of such costs.

(4) (Repealed)

(5) The prosecutor may conduct the case personally or by an Australian legal practitioneror an agent duly authorised by the prosecutor in writing.

13 Recovery of holiday pay

(1) Any worker may apply to the Local Court, or to the Industrial Relations Commissionin Court Session, for an order directing the employer to pay to the worker the fullamount of any remuneration or payment which has become due to the worker underthis Act at any time during the period of 6 years immediately preceding the date ofthe application but not earlier than 18 months before the date of assent to the AnnualHolidays (Amendment) Act 1980.

The Local Court or Industrial Relations Commission in Court Session may make anyorder it thinks just in the matter and may award costs to either party, and assess theamount of such costs.

(1A) (Repealed)

(2) A worker may take any such proceedings and may recover any such moneys due, andcosts, notwithstanding the fact that the worker has not reached the age of twenty-oneyears.

(3) In any case where the worker is a person employed to do any work for which the priceor rate has been fixed by an award or agreement, proceedings under this section may,with the consent in writing of the worker, be taken by the secretary or other officerof an industrial organisation of employees registered under the Industrial RelationsAct 1996, concerned in the industry to which such award or agreement relates, in thename and on behalf of the worker.

Any amount ordered to be paid in proceedings under this subsection may be paid tosuch secretary or other officer and the receipt of such secretary or other officer shallbe a sufficient discharge to the employer for the amount mentioned in the receipt.

Any amount so paid to such secretary or other officer (less any costs properlyincurred in connection with the proceedings and not paid by the employer) shall beheld on trust for the worker on whose behalf the proceedings were taken.

14 Provisions as to enforcement of orders, appeals etc

The provisions of the Industrial Relations Act 1996, and of the regulations under thatAct, relating to:(a) recovery of a penalty, and(b) the making of an order for the payment of interest on an amount of money, and

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(c) an application for, and enforcement of, an order for the payment of money orinterest on an amount of money, and

(d) an appeal from, or the stating of a case by, the Local Court to the IndustrialRelations Commission in Court Session,

apply to proceedings under this Act for the recovery of a penalty or the payment ofmoney or interest on an amount of money.

15 Regulations

(1) The Governor may make regulations not inconsistent with this Act prescribing allmatters which by this Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which arenecessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2) Such regulations may impose a penalty not exceeding 0.5 penalty unit for any breachthereof.

(3) (Repealed)

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Annual Holidays Act 1944 No 31 [NSW]Historical Notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:Am amended LW legislation website Sch ScheduleCl clause No number Schs SchedulesCll clauses p page Sec sectionDiv Division pp pages Secs sectionsDivs Divisions Reg Regulation Subdiv SubdivisionGG Government Gazette Regs Regulations Subdivs SubdivisionsIns inserted Rep repealed Subst substituted

Historical notes

Table of amending instrumentsAnnual Holidays Act 1944 No 31. Assented to 8.12.1944. Date of commencement, 1.1.1945, sec 1 (2) andGG No 125 of 22.12.1944, p 2159. This Act has been amended as follows:

1958 No 28 Annual Holidays (Amendment) Act 1958. Assented to 24.11.1958.


1965 No 33 Decimal Currency Act 1965. Assented to 20.12.1965.Date of commencement of sec 4, 14.2.1966, secs 1 (3), 2 (1) and the Currency Act 1965 (Commonwealth), sec 2 (2).


1969 No 37 Apprentices Act 1969. Assented to 17.4.1969.Date of commencement of Sch 2, 1.7.1969, sec 2 (1) and GG No 73 of 27.6.1969, p 2364.



1976 No 54 Miscellaneous Acts (Inspectors) Amendment Act 1976. Assented to 27.10.1976.




1986 No 8 Annual Holidays (Industrial Arbitration) Amendment Act 1986. Assented to 24.4.1986.

1987 No 48 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 1) 1987. Assented to 28.5.1987.Date of commencement of Sch 32, except as provided by sec 2 (13), 1.9.1987, sec 2 (12) and GG No 136 of 28.8.1987, p 4809.

1989 No 79 Miscellaneous Acts (Industrial and Commercial Training) Amendment Act 1989. Assented to 2.6.1989.Date of commencement, 1.7.1989, sec 2 (1) and GG No 81 of 30.6.1989, p 3819.

1990 No 113 Industrial Arbitration (Enterprise Agreements) Amendment Act 1990. Assented to 18.12.1990.Date of commencement, 25.1.1991, sec 2 and GG No 18 of 25.1.1991, p 650.

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This Act has also been amended pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 No48. Order dated 22.6.1981, and published in GG No 91 of 26.6.1981, p 3461, declaring that:

(a) the Annual Holidays Act 1944 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) of the Reprints Act 1972 applies,and

(b) the Annual Holidays Act 1944, the words “of this section” wherever occurring in sec 4 (4) excepted,is an enactment to which sec 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 applies.

1991 No 17 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1991. Assented to 3.5.1991.Date of commencement of the provisions of Sch 1 relating to the Annual Holidays Act 1944, 5.7.1991, Sch 1 and GG No 103 of 5.7.1991, p 5395.

No 34 Industrial Relations Act 1991. Assented to 11.11.1991.Date of commencement, 31.3.1992, sec 2 and GG No 40 of 27.3.1992, p 1978.

1992 No 34 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992. Assented to 18.5.1992.Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 1 relating to the Annual Holidays Act 1944, assent, Sch 1.

No 112 Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1992. Assented to 8.12.1992.Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.

1995 No 99 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1995. Assented to 21.12.1995.Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3). Amended by Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1996 No 30. Assented to 21.6.1996. Date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).

1996 No 121 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1996. Assented to 3.12.1996.Date of commencement of Sch 4.3, 4 months after assent, sec 2 (4).

1997 No 26 Annual Holidays Amendment Act 1997. Assented to 25.6.1997.Date of commencement, 1.8.1997, sec 2 and GG No 83 of 25.7.1997, p 5679.

No 147 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1997. Assented to 17.12.1997.Date of commencement of Sch 2.2, assent, sec 2 (2).

2000 No 61 Industrial Relations Leave Legislation Amendment (Bonuses) Act 2000. Assented to 5.7.2000.Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.

2001 No 121 Justices Legislation Repeal and Amendment Act 2001. Assented to 19.12.2001.Date of commencement of Sch 2, 7.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5978.

2005 No 98 Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2005. Assented to 24.11.2005.Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2 (2).

2007 No 94 Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007.Date of commencement of Sch 2, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.

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Table of amendmentsNo reference is made to certain amendments made by the Decimal Currency Act 1965, the Reprints Act1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (MiscellaneousProvisions) Act (No 2) 1995.

Sec 2 Am 1964 No 31, sec 2 (a); 1967 No 50, sec 2; 1969 No 37, Second Sch; 1970 No 44, sec 2; 1974 No 97, sec 2 (a); 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (1); 1990 No 113, Sch 2; 1991 No 34, Sch 3; 1996 No 121, Sch 4.3 [1] [2]; 2000 No 61, Sch 1.

Sec 3 Am 1958 No 28, sec 2 (a); 1964 No 31, sec 2 (b); 1967 No 50, sec 3 (a); 1974 No 97, sec 2 (b); 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (2); 1991 No 34, Sch 3; 1996 No 121, Sch 4.3 [2].

Sec 4 Am 1958 No 28, sec 2 (b); 1974 No 97, sec 2 (c); 1984 No 31, sec 2.

Sec 4A Ins 1967 No 50, sec 3 (b). Am 1974 No 97, sec 2 (d); 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (3).

Sec 4B Ins 1997 No 26, Sch 1.1.

Sec 5 Am 1958 No 28, sec 2 (c); 1967 No 50, sec 3 (c); 1969 No 37, Second Sch; 1974 No 97, sec 2 (e); 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (4); 1989 No 79, Sch 1; 1991 No 34, Sch 3; 1996 No 121, Sch 4.3 [2].

Sec 9 Am 1983 No 91, Sch 1 (1); 1992 No 34, Sch 1.

Sec 10 Am 1983 No 91, Sch 1 (2).

Sec 10A Ins 1976 No 54, sec 4. Am 1983 No 91, Sch 1 (3).

Sec 11 Am 1980 No 184, sec 3 (a); 1983 No 91, Sch 1 (4); 1992 No 112, Sch 1.

Sec 12 Am 1964 No 31, sec 2 (c); 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (5); 1991 No 17, Sch 1; 1991 No 34, Sch 3; 1996 No 121, Sch 4.3 [3]; 1997 No 147, Sch 2.2; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.12 [1]; 2005 No 98, Sch 3.3; 2007 No 94, Sch 2.

Sec 13 Am 1964 No 31, sec 2 (d); 1980 No 184, sec 3 (b); 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (5); 1986 No 8, sec 2; 1991 No 17, Sch 1; 1991 No 34, Sch 3; 1996 No 121, Sch 4.3 [2] [3]; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.12 [2]; 2007 No 94, Sch 2.

Sec 14 Am 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (6); 1991 No 17, Sch 1. Subst 1991 No 34, Sch 3. Am 1996 No 121, Sch 4.3 [2] [3]; 2007 No 94, Sch 2.

Sec 15 Am 1983 No 91, Sch 2 (7); 1987 No 48, Sch 32; 1992 No 112, Sch 1.

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