What the official record says
This Act is the Minimum Wage (Starting-out Wage) Amendment Act . This Act comes into force on . This Act amends the Minimum Wage Act 1983 (the ). Replace section 4 with: The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, prescribe a minimum adult rate of wages payable to workers— who are aged 16 years or older; and to whom any other minimum rate of wages prescribed under does not apply. A rate prescribed under must be prescribed as a monetary amount. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, prescribe 1 or more minimum starting-out rates of wages payable to 1 or more classes of workers who— are aged 16, 17, 18, or 19 years; and are not involved in supervising or training other workers; and are defined in the order by reference to the age (or range of ages) of the workers and 1 or more of