Commencement: 29 December 1989

REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

THE EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT
No. 33 OF 1989

Arrangement of Sections

1. Amendment of section 54 of Act, No. 1 of 1983.
2. Commencement.

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REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

THE EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT
No. 33 OF 1989

ASSENT: 18/12/89
COMMENCEMENT: 29/12/89

An Act to amend the Employment Act, No. 1 of 1983.

BE IT ENACTED by the President and Parliament as follows -

AMENDMENT OF SECTION 54 OF ACT, No. 1 OF 1983

1. Section 54 of the Employment Act, No. 1 of 1983 is amended by repealing subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:-

"(1) Subject to section 55, where an employee has been in continuous employment for a period of not less than twelve months, with an employer on a contract of employment entered into before or, on or after the date of commencement of this Act, and -

(a) the employer terminates his employment; or

(b) on or after the employee reaching the age of 55, the employer retires him; or

(c) the employee ceases to be employed by reason of illness or injury and is certified by a registered medical practitioner to be unfit to continue to work,

the employer shall pay severance allowance to the employee under the Act.

For the purpose of this subsection, 'medical practitioner' means a medical practitioner registered as a health practitioner under the Health Practitioners Act, to practice medicine and/or surgery."

COMMENCEMENT

2. This Act shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette.

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