Payroll Tax Rebate (Apprentices, Trainees and Youth Employees) Amendment Act 2020


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Payroll Tax Rebate (Apprentices, Trainees and Youth Employees) Amendment Act 2020

An Act to amend the Payroll Tax Rebate (Apprentices, Trainees and Youth Employees) Act 2017

[Royal Assent 16 December 2020]

Be it enacted by Her Excellency the Governor of Tasmania, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and House of Assembly, in Parliament assembled, as follows:

1.   Short title

This Act may be cited as the Payroll Tax Rebate (Apprentices, Trainees and Youth Employees) Amendment Act 2020 .

2.   Commencement

This Act commences on 1 January 2021, but if this Act does not receive the Royal Assent by that date it is taken to have commenced on 1 January 2021.

3.   Principal Act

In this Act, the Payroll Tax Rebate (Apprentices, Trainees and Youth Employees) Act 2017 is referred to as the Principal Act.

4.    Section 3 amended (Interpretation)

The definition of eligible period in section 3 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) "30 June 2021" and substituting "30 June 2022";
(b) by omitting from paragraph (ab)(ii) "31 December 2020" and substituting "30 June 2022";
(c) by omitting paragraph (b) and substituting the following paragraph:
(b) in relation to any other eligible employee –
(i) the period commencing on 1 July 2017 and ending on 30 June 2019 inclusive; or
(ii) the period commencing on 1 January 2021 and ending on 30 June 2022 inclusive;

5.   Repeal of Act

This Act is repealed on the first anniversary of the day on which it received the Royal Assent.

[Second reading presentation speech made in:

House of Assembly on 19 NOVEMBER 2020

Legislative Council on 9 DECEMBER 2020]