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PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT (CONSEQUENTIAL AND TRANSITIONAL) AMENDMENT ACT 1999 - SECT 12

Parliamentary Departments
(1)
The Parliamentary Departments continue in existence, and the old Act, the Merit Protection Act and other Acts continue to apply in relation to the Parliamentary Departments as if the old Act and the Merit Protection Act had not been repealed.

(2)
In any Act (other than the Privacy Act 1988 ):

(a)
a replacement reference to an Agency is to be read as including a reference to a Parliamentary Department; and

(b)
a replacement reference to an Agency Head (not including a reference to the Agency Head of a particular Agency) is to be read as including a reference to the Secretary (within the meaning of the old Act) of a Parliamentary Department.

(3)
This section has effect subject to any modifications prescribed by the regulations.

(4)
This section does not, by implication, limit section 14.

(5)
In this section:

"replacement reference" means a reference that resulted from an amendment made by this Act or by regulations under this Act.



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