New South Wales Consolidated Acts

BIOSECURITY ACT 2015 - SECT 360M

360M Other employment conditions and remuneration

(1) The employment of the Commissioner must, subject to this Act, be governed by a contract of employment between the Commissioner and the Minister.

Example--: The contract of employment may provide for the Commissioner to be employed on a full-time or part-time basis.

(2) The Commissioner is not a Public Service employee under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 and the provisions of that Act relating to the employment of Public Service employees do not apply to the Commissioner, except as provided by subsection (3).

(3) The following provisions (the
"relevant provisions" ) of, or made under, the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 relating to the employment of Public Service senior executives apply to the Commissioner--

(a) provisions relating to the band in which an executive must be employed,

(b) provisions relating to the contract of employment of an executive,

(c) provisions relating to the remuneration, employment benefits and allowances of an executive.

(4) For subsection (3), the relevant provisions apply as if a reference to the employer of a Public Service senior executive were a reference to the Minister.

(5) Without limiting subsection (3)(b), the provisions of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 , and regulations and rules made under that Act, prescribing a model contract of employment, including specifying model provisions that are mandatory, for statutory office holders apply to the contract of employment for the Commissioner.