New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 78

78 Promotion, transfer and re-appointment following resignation

(1) When a non-executive commissioned police officer is appointed by way of promotion to another position in the NSW Police Force as a non-executive commissioned police officer, the officer is to be appointed for a new term of office in accordance with section 74 in the rank to which the officer is promoted.

(2) When a non-executive commissioned police officer is transferred to another position in the NSW Police Force as a non-executive commissioned police officer, the officer is not to be appointed for a new term of office, and the officer's existing term of office continues in the transferred position.

(3) When a non-executive commissioned police officer is re-appointed under section 72 (Re-employment of employees resigning to contest Commonwealth elections) of the Government Sector Employment Act 2013 the officer is to be appointed for a new term of office that is equivalent to the balance of the officer's term of office as at resignation.