Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The amount of an instalment payable to a person is the sum of the daily national minimum wage amounts for each day, during the instalment period to which the instalment relates, that is:
(a) a flexible PPL day for a child of the person; and
(b) a day for which parental leave pay is payable to the person.
(2) The daily national minimum wage amount for a day is 7.6 times the amount of the national minimum wage (when expressed as a monetary amount per hour) set by a national minimum wage order that is in operation on that day (whether or not the order has also taken effect on that day).
Note: For when a national minimum wage order comes into operation, see section 287 of the Fair Work Act.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2):
(a) the national minimum wage is taken to be the wage set by the national minimum wage order for employees in relation to whom no exceptional circumstances exist (see subsection 287(2) of the Fair Work Act); and
(b) if:
(i) the Fair Work Commission makes a determination under section 296 of the Fair Work Act varying a national minimum wage order; and
(ii) the day the determination comes into operation under section 297 of that Act is earlier than the day the determination is made;
the determination is taken to come into operation on the day the determination is made.