Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 111, 1982 - SECT 12

12. (1) Section 16 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting from sub-section (1) ''or to an officer or employee'' and
        substituting '', to an officer or employee or to a person appointed to
        an office, under a law of the Commonwealth, by the Governor-General or
        a Minister all or'';

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (3) ''Permanent Head'' and substituting
        ''relevant Permanent Head''; and

   (c)  by omitting sub-section (4) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(4) In this section, a reference to the Chairman of the Board shall, if a
person is acting as the Chairman of the Board, be read as a reference to that
person.''.

(2) An instrument of delegation in force under section 16 of the Principal Act
immediately before the commencement of this section shall, after the
commencement of this section, have effect as if it were an instrument of
delegation under section 16 of the Principal Act as amended by sub-section
(1).

(3) Any delegation that the Public Service Board purported to make before the
commencement of this section of all of its powers and functions under the
Public Service Act 1922 or under any other law shall be deemed to have been as
valid as it would have been if the reference in sub-section 16 (1) of the
Public Service Act 1922 as in force at the time when the purported delegation
was made to any of the Board's powers and functions under the Public Service
Act 1922 or under any other law had been a reference to all or any of the
Board's powers and functions under that Act or under any other law.

(4) The reference in sub-section (2) to an instrument of delegation in force
under section 16 of the Principal Act immediately before the commencement of
this section includes a reference to such an instrument that is to be taken to
have been in force by reason of the operation of sub-section (3).