New Zealand Legislation: Acts

2AC  multiple employments of teachers

• (1) For the purposes of determining the entitlement of a teacher to rights and benefits in respect of parental leave and parental leave payment, if, during a 12-month period (or 6-month period as the case may be), the teacher is employed by more than 1 Board of Trustees to work in more than 1 State school or integrated school (whether concurrently or consecutively), those employments must be treated as 1 employment.

  (2) In subsection (1),—

  Board of Trustees means a Board of Trustees constituted under Part 9 of the Education Act 1989

  integrated school has the same meaning as in section 145 of the Education Act 1989

  State school has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Education Act 1989

  teacher has the same meaning as in section 91A of the Education Act 1989.

  (3) This section overrides section 2A.

  Sections 2AB and 2AC were inserted, as from 9 November 2004, by section 8 Parental Leave and Employment Protection Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 89). See section 4 of that Act for the application of this amendment. See section 23 of that Act for the transitional provision relating to the giving of notice.

  The heading to section 2AC was amended, as from 1 July 2006, by section 46 Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave for Self-Employed Persons) Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 20) by omitting the expression “Interpretation:”. See section 5 of that Act for the application of this amendment.