Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 2008 - SECT 226

226 Existing chief executives

(1) If, immediately before the changeover day, a person held appointment under the repealed Public Service Act as a chief executive, the person is taken to have been appointed under this Act as a chief executive for the remainder of the person’s term of appointment.

(2) If, immediately before the changeover day, a person was seconded as chief executive of a department, the secondment continues as if it had been made under this Act.

(3) The title of a chief executive immediately before the changeover day continues to be the title of the chief executive, subject to the Minister’s power of appointment to particular departments, under section 93.

(4) For section 95, the police commissioner is taken to be the chief executive of the Department of Police.

(5) The contract of employment of a chief executive in force immediately before the changeover day is taken to have been made under this Act.

(6) An appointment in existence immediately before the changeover day for a person to act as a chief executive continues in force as if the appointment had been made under this Act.

(7) To remove any doubt, it is declared that subsection (6) applies whether or not the person was acting under the appointment.