Commonwealth Numbered Acts

HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 1973 No. 211 of 1973 - SECT 24

24. (1) For the purposes of this Part, the Chairman has all the powers of, or
exercisable by, a Permanent Head under the Public Service Act 1922-1973 so far
as those powers relate to the branch of the Public Service comprising the
staff of the Commission as if that branch were a separate Department of the
Public Service.

(2) For the purposes of sub-sections 25 (5) and (6) of that Act, the Chairman
shall be deemed to be a Permanent Head.

(3) The Chairman may exercise his powers of delegation under sub-section 25
(5) of that Act in favour of a full-time Commissioner as if the full-time
Commissioners were officers for the purposes of that sub- section.