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PAID PARENTAL LEAVE AMENDMENT (FLEXIBILITY MEASURES) BILL 2020

                              2019-2020




    THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA




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   PAID PARENTAL LEAVE AMENDMENT (FLEXIBILITY MEASURES)
                         BILL 2020



          SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM




        Amendments to be moved on behalf of the Government




                    (Circulated by the authority of the
Minister for Families and Social Services, Senator the Hon Anne Ruston)
   PAID PARENTAL LEAVE AMENDMENT (FLEXIBILITY MEASURES)
                         BILL 2020


OUTLINE

These amendments revise the commencement date of the Bill from
1 April 2020 to 1 July 2020.

Given the passage of time, amendments are also made to Schedule 2 to the
Bill to update dates referred to in the transitional, application and saving
provisions.

Financial impact statement

The financial impact of these amendments is nil.




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   PAID PARENTAL LEAVE AMENDMENT (FLEXIBILITY MEASURES)
                         BILL 2020

                          Government amendments

These amendments revise the commencement date from 1 April 2020 to
1 July 2020.

Given the passage of time, amendments are also made to Schedule 2 to the
Bill to update dates referred to in the transitional, application and saving
provisions.

NOTES ON AMENDMENTS

Amendment 1 changes the commencement date of table item 2 in section 2
of the Bill. This will mean that the operative schedules of the Bill, Schedules 1
and 2 will commence on 1 July 2020. Sections 1 to 3 will continue to
commence on the day that the Royal Assent is received.

Amendment 2 amends the definition of 'commencement day', for the
purposes of Schedule 2 to the Bill, to be 1 July 2020.

Amendments 3 and 4 amend item 2 of Schedule 2. First, amendment 3
replaces the text at subitem 1 with the words 'the amendments of the PPL Act
made by Schedule 1 to this Act do not apply in relation to a claim for parental
leave pay for a child made before the commencement day.' Amendment 4
replaces the reference in subitem 2 to 1 April 2020 with 'the commencement
day'. As above, the definition of 'commencement day' is amended to be
1 July 2020.

Amendments 5, 6 and 7 amend item 3 of Schedule 2 to reflect the change in
commencement day. Amendment 5 replaces the text at subitem 1 with the
following '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.'

Amendment 6 replaces a reference to 1 April 2020 with 1 July 2020 and
corrects consequential grammatical issues contained in lines 23 to 25 of
item 3. Similarly, amendment 7 corrects a consequential grammatical error to
replace the words 'is born' to 'was born' reflecting that this event will now have
occurred in the past tense.




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