Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 193, 1976 - SECT 3

3. Section 47E of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub- section (2)
and substituting the following sub-sections:-

''(2) Where a person to whom this sub-section applies was, during a period (in
this sub-section referred to as the 'relevant period') that commenced on 16
September 1975, employed continuously in-

   (a)  a service referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of sub-section (4); or

   (b)  2 or more of the services referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c)
        of sub-section (4), in succession, the person shall, for the purposes
        of sub-section (1), be deemed to have been continuously in the service
        of a public employer during the period, or during each of the periods,
        during which he was, during the relevant period, employed in a service
        referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of sub-section (4).

''(3) Sub-section (2) applies to a person who is an officer of the Australian
Public Service and was, immediately before 16 September 1975, employed in-

   (a)  the service of Papua New Guinea;

   (b)  the service of a body (not being an incorporated company, society or
        association) established for a public purpose by or under a law of
        Papua New Guinea; or

   (c)  the service of the Commonwealth as a member of the Australian Staffing
        Assistance Group.

''(4) For the purposes of sub-section (2), the services are-

   (a)  the service of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea;

   (b)  the service of a body (not being an incorporated company, society or
        association) established for a public purpose by or under a law of the
        Independent State of Papua New Guinea; or

   (c)  the service of the Commonwealth in respect of the Australian Staffing
        Assistance Group.

''(5) In this section-

'Australian Staffing Assistance Group' means the body established under that
name by the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973;

'authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory' means a body
corporate (not being an incorporated company, society or association)
incorporated for a public purpose by or under a law of the Commonwealth or of
a State or Territory;

'Papua New Guinea' has the same meaning as it had in the Papua New Guinea Act
1949 as in force on 15 September 1975;

'public employer' means the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory or an
authority of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.''.