17. Section 36 of the Principal Act is amended—
(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (2) (a) “and his or her date of birth”;
(b) by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) “and address”;
(c) by inserting after paragraph (2) (b) the following paragraph:
“(ba) the address of the principal place of business of the employer (if any) of the person and, if the employer is a body corporate, the address of its registered office;”; and
(d) by omitting subsection (7) and substituting the following subsections:
“(7) The registration of a person under subsection (1), or in pursuance of an order of the Board under subsection (4), takes effect—
(a) if the applicant for registration was an employee on the prescribed day—
(i) on the day on which he or she commenced building and construction work with the employer with whom he or she was employed on the prescribed day; or
(ii) on 1 October 1981;
whichever is the later; or
(b) if the applicant for registration was not an employee on the prescribed day—on the day on which the applicant commenced building and construction work after the prescribed day.
“(8) In subsection (7)—
‘prescribed day' means the day that was 12 months before the date on which an applicant for registration lodged his or her application.”.