PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT (CONSEQUENTIAL AND TRANSITIONAL) AMENDMENT ACT 1999

Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Regulations

(a): required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b): necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2): The following subsections do not, by implication, limit subsection (1).
(3): Regulations may be made:

(a): in relation to the continuation of the following things under the old Act or the Merit Protection Act, and their effects under the new Act:

(i): processes relating to appointment, re-instatement, transfer, promotion, advancement, classification or retirement;
(ii): inquiries into pre-commencement misconduct for which a person was charged under the old Act before the commencing time;
(iii): appeals against disciplinary directions;
(iv): the performance of functions under Subdivision FA of Division 2 of Part II of the Merit Protection Act;
(v): the review of decisions under Division 3 of Part II of the Merit Protection Act;
(vi): the investigation of grievances under Division 4 of Part II of the Merit Protection Act; and

(b): in relation to the continuation under the new Act of suspensions that were in force under the old Act immediately before the commencing time; and
(c): in relation to:

(i): the review of decisions made under the old Act before the commencing time; and
(ii): the effects, under the new Act, of those reviews; and
(iii): the powers available to a person or body conducting such a review; and

(d): providing for the powers available to a person conducting a review referred to in paragraph (c); and
(e): in relation to arrangements, agreements and other things under Division 9 of Part III of the old Act; and
(f): for other matters of a transitional or saving nature arising from:

including such matters arising from the amendments made by a Schedule to this Act or from amendments made by regulations under this section.

(a): may provide for the old Act or the Merit Protection Act to continue in force for the purposes of the regulations, even though those Acts are repealed by this Act; and
(b): prevail over the old Act, the new Act, the Merit Protection Act and section 13 of this Act, to the extent of any inconsistency.

(a): amend other Acts, by making amendments of a kind that are consequential on the repeal of the old Act and its replacement by the new Act; and
(b): make provision of a transitional or saving nature in relation to amendments made under paragraph (a).

(6): For the purposes of the Amendments Incorporation Act 1905 , amendments made by regulations under paragraph (5)(a) are to be treated as if they had been made by an Act.
(7): Regulations made under this section within one year after the commencement of this section may commence on a day earlier than the day on which they are made, but not earlier than the commencement of this section.
(8): This section does not, by implication, limit any other section of this Act that provides for the making of regulations.

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