Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act:
"Commonwealth" includes the following:
(a) a Federal Court;
(b) a Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 ;
(c) a body (not being a body corporate) established or continued in existence for a public purpose by or under a Commonwealth law, other than a body established by or under:
(i) the Australian Capital Territory (Self - Government) Act 1988 ; or
(ii) the Norfolk Island Act 1979 ; or
(iii) the Northern Territory (Self - Government) Act 1978 .
"Commonwealth authority" means a body corporate established or continued in existence for a public purpose by or under a Commonwealth law, but does not include:
(a) a corporation registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 ; or
(b) an organisation registered or an association recognised under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 ; or
(c) a body specified in the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.
"organised" includes directed and supervised.
"recreational drug" means a drug consumed voluntarily for non - medicinal purposes and includes alcohol.
"voluntary basis" has the meaning given by subsections ( 2) and (3).
Meaning of voluntary basis
(2) An individual does work for the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority on a voluntary basis if the individual:
(a) either:
(i) receives no remuneration for doing the work other than the reimbursement of reasonable expenses incurred by the individual in doing the work; or
(ii) receives remuneration for doing the work less than the amount, if any, prescribed or determined in accordance with the regulations; and
(b) does not do the work under a court order.
(3) An individual also does work for the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority on a voluntary basis if:
(a) the individual continues to receive remuneration from the individual's usual employer while doing the work but receives no other remuneration for doing the work other than:
(i) reimbursement of reasonable expenses incurred by the individual in doing the work; or
(ii) remuneration less than the amount, if any, prescribed or determined in accordance with the regulations; and
(b) the work is of a kind that is usually done for the Commonwealth or the Commonwealth authority by persons who either:
(i) receive no remuneration for doing the work other than the reimbursement of reasonable expenses incurred in doing the work; or
(ii) receive remuneration for doing the work less than the amount, if any, prescribed or determined in accordance with the regulations; and
(c) the individual does not do the work under a court order.
Acts and omissions of individuals covered
(4) A reference in this Act to a thing done by an individual includes a reference to the omission by an individual to do a thing.