Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 111, 1982 - SECT 77

77. (1) A person who at any time holds an office of Permanent Head may be
appointed to hold another office of Permanent Head and shall not, by reason
only of being so appointed, cease to hold the first-mentioned office.

(2) Sub-sections 54 (4) to (15), inclusive, of the Principal Act do not apply
in relation to an appointment to which sub-section (1) of this section
applies.

(3) A person who at any time holds, or holds an appointment to act in, an
office of Permanent Head may be appointed to act in another office of
Permanent Head and shall not, by reason only of being so appointed, cease to
hold, or to hold the appointment to act in, the first-mentioned office.

(4) If a person who is appointed to hold, or to act in, an office of
Permanent Head at a time when he holds, or holds an appointment to act in,
another office of Permanent Head ceases for any reason to hold, or to hold the
appointment to act in, the first-mentioned office, he thereupon also ceases,
by force of this sub-section, to hold, or to hold the appointment to act in,
the other office.

(5) If a person who holds, or holds an appointment to act in, an office of
Permanent Head is appointed to hold, or to act in, another office of Permanent
Head, he shall not be paid any remuneration, whether by way of salary, annual
allowance or otherwise, in respect of his holding, or holding the appointment
to act in, the other office.

(6) This section has effect notwithstanding anything contained in the
Principal Act or in the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973.

(7) Nothing in this section shall be construed as excluding the application of
sub-section 19B (3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 in relation to any
provision of this section.

(8) This section ceases to have effect on the day on which section 30 of the
Public Service Acts Amendment Act 1982 comes into operation and it shall, when
it so ceases to have effect, thereupon be deemed for the purposes of section 8
of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 to have been repealed by an Act other than
this Act.