Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act, employee means a person (other than an AFP employee) employed by the Commonwealth or by a Commonwealth authority, whether the person is so employed under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory, or under a contract of service or apprenticeship.
(2) Without limiting subsection ( 1):
(a) a member of the Parliament; or
(b) a justice or judge of a federal court; or
(c) a member of the Defence Force; or
(d) a person (other than a person mentioned in subsection ( 3)) who is the holder of:
(i) an office established by a law of the Commonwealth; or
(ii) a prescribed office established by a law of a Territory;
is to be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be employed by the Commonwealth.
(3) Without limiting subsection ( 1), a person is to be taken, for the purposes of this Act, to be employed by a Commonwealth authority if:
(a) the person constitutes, or is a member of, the authority; or
(b) where the authority is a body corporate--the person is a director of the body corporate.