Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

WORKPLACE PRIVACY ACT 2011 (NO. 4 OF 2011) - SECT 8

    (1)     In this Act:

"employer", of a worker—

        (a)     includes—

              (i)         a person who engages the worker to carry out work in the person's business or undertaking; and

              (ii)     if the person who engages the worker is a corporation—a related body corporate of the corporation; but

        (b)     does not include a person (the "householder") who engages someone else to perform domestic duties at the premises where the householder lives.

Examples—employer

1     principal contractor is an employer of a subcontractor

2     host organisation is an employer of a labour hire worker

Note     An example is part of the Act, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).

    (2)     In this section:

"related body corporate"—see the Corporations Act, section 9.