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Parental Leave and Employment Protection Act 1987

Payment for parental leave - Administration

71W: Obligation to supply information

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“The government can ask for information about your parental leave payment”

If you have applied for a parental leave payment, the government department in charge may ask you for information about your right to get this payment. They can do this by sending you a written notice. If you have an employer, the department can also ask them for information about your right to the payment.

If you work for yourself and have applied for a parental leave payment, the department can ask you for information about your right to get this payment too.

When the department asks you, your employer, or you as a self-employed person for this information, you must give it to them. You need to do this within a reasonable time that the department will set.

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Part 7A Payment for parental leave
Administration

71WObligation to supply information

  1. The department may, by written notice, request an employee who has applied for a parental leave payment, and any employer of that employee, to supply to the department any information in the employee's or the employer's (as the case may be) possession relating to the employee's entitlement or continued entitlement to payment under this Part.

  2. The department may, by written notice, request a self-employed person who has applied for a parental leave payment to supply to the department any information in the self-employed person's possession relating to that person's entitlement or continued entitlement to payment under this Part.

  3. The employee, employer, or self-employed person must comply with a request under this section within a reasonable period to be set by the department.

Notes
  • Section 71W: inserted, on , by section 4(2) of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 7).
  • Section 71W(1A): inserted, on , by section 41(1) of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave for Self-Employed Persons) Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 20).
  • Section 71W(2): amended, on , by section 41(2) of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Paid Parental Leave for Self-Employed Persons) Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 20).