New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ELECTORAL ACT 2017 - SECT 15

15 Staff of Electoral Commission

(1) Persons may be employed in the Public Service to enable the Electoral Commission and the Electoral Commissioner to exercise their functions. The persons so employed are to be employed in a separate Public Service agency and may be referred to as members of staff of the Electoral Commission.

(2) Any conditions of employment (within the meaning of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 ) determined by the Electoral Commissioner under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 with respect to any such persons who are employed in casual employment in connection with an election have effect despite any State industrial instrument that applies to Public Service casual employees generally, unless the instrument expressly applies to those casual employees.