Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 78B

Scope

  (1)   This section applies if a survey known as an Australian Public Service Employee Census is conducted in a financial year.

Preparation of action plan

  (2)   The Agency Head of an Agency must:

  (a)   prepare an action plan that sets out the Agency Head's response to the census results, so far as those results relate to the Agency; and

  (b)   do so as soon as practicable after those results are made known to the Agency Head.

Publication of census results and action plan

  (3)   The Agency Head must:

  (a)   publish:

  (i)   the census results, so far as those results relate to the Agency; and

  (ii)   the action plan prepared by the Agency Head under subsection   (2); and

  (b)   do so as soon as practicable after the first day on which a copy of the State of the Service report for the financial year is laid before a House of the Parliament.

Exemptions

  (4)   The Commissioner may, by writing, exempt an Agency Head from publishing, under subsection   (3), either or both of the following:

  (a)   census results;

  (b)   an action plan.

Authorisation of removal of material

  (5)   The Commissioner may, by writing, authorise an Agency Head to remove specified material from either or both of the following:

  (a)   the copy of the census results;

  (b)   the copy of an action plan;

that is published by the Agency Head under subsection   (3).

Protection of individual privacy

  (6)   An Agency Head must remove any material that is reasonably likely to enable the identification of an individual from:

  (a)   the copy of the census results; or

  (b)   the copy of an action plan;

that is published by the Agency Head under subsection   (3).

Exemptions and authorisations are not legislative instruments

  (7)   An exemption under subsection   (4) is not a legislative instrument.

  (8)   An authorisation under subsection   (5) is not a legislative instrument.