Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE AMENDMENT ACT 1983 No. 56, 1983 - SECT 3

3. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the
following sub-sections:



"(3) Where, immediately before the commencement of this sub-section -

   (a)  an office existed in a branch or part of the Service, being a branch
        or part of the Service in a Department of the Service referred to in
        paragraph (a) of the definition of 'Department' in sub-section (1);
        and

   (b)  in relation to that branch or part of the Service a person other than
        the Permanent Head of that Department had, under this Act or another
        Act, the powers of, or exercisable by, a Permanent Head, the office
        is, by force of this sub-section, transferred from the Department of
        the Service referred to in paragraph (a) of this sub-section to the
        Department that, by virtue of paragraph (b) of the definition of
        'Department' in sub-section (1), is constituted by that branch or part
        of the Service and this Act has effect as if the office had been duly
        created in that last-mentioned Department.



"(4) A reference in any law of the Commonwealth or law of a Territory, or in
any regulation or other instrument made or issued under such a law, to the
holder for the time being, or to the person for the time being performing the
duties, of an office, being an office that has been transferred from one
Department to another Department by virtue of sub-section (3), shall, except
in relation to matters that occurred before the commencement of this
sub-section, be construed as a reference to the holder for the time being, or
to the person for the time being performing the duties, of the office as it
exists in the Department to which it has been so transferred.".