Queensland Consolidated Acts

ABORIGINAL LAND ACT 1991 - SECT 209

209 Preservation of rights

(1) This section applies if an officer of the public service is appointed as the chairperson of the Land Tribunal.

(2) The person retains and is entitled to all rights that have accrued to the person because of employment as an officer of the public service, or that would accrue in the future to the person because of that employment, as if service as chairperson were a continuation of service as an officer of the public service.

(3) If the person has not attained 65 years of age at the time of the expiry of the person’s term of office or resignation—

(a) the person is entitled to be appointed to an office in the public service at a salary level not less than the salary level, at that time, of an office equivalent to the one the person held before being appointed as chairperson; and

(b) the person’s service as chairperson is to be regarded as service in the public service for the purpose of determining the person’s rights as an officer of the public service.