Queensland Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 2008 - SECT 291

291 Disciplinary action against a public service employee who was a relevant commission officer

(1) This section applies to a person who is a public service employee and was a relevant commission officer.

(2) The person may be disciplined under chapter 6, part 2, division 3 in relation to a relevant disciplinary ground arising when the person was a relevant commission officer only if the ground arose on or after 3 February 2017.

Note—

Particular provisions of this Act about disciplinary action have applied to the Crime and Corruption Commission, as a public service office under this Act, since 3 February 2017.

(3) However, if the relevant disciplinary ground arising on or after 3 February 2017 relates to conduct that is a part of a course of conduct that also includes conduct giving rise to a relevant disciplinary ground arising before 3 February 2017, the person may be disciplined under chapter 6, part 2, division 3 in relation to all of the grounds as if they all arose on or after 3 February 2017.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply in relation to a relevant disciplinary ground arising before 3 February 2017 if disciplinary action has been, or is being, taken in relation to the ground under this Act or a relevant disciplinary law for the person within the meaning of section 186B(3).

(5) If, at the commencement, the CCC chairperson is taking disciplinary action under section 187A in relation to a person to whom this section applies—

(a) the chairperson must stop taking the disciplinary action under section 187A; and

(b) the disciplinary action may be continued under chapter 6, part 2, division 3; and

(c) anything done under section 187A in relation to the disciplinary action by the CCC chairperson is taken to have been done under chapter 6, part 2, division 3 by the CCC chief executive officer.

(6) Subsection (5) does not prevent the CCC chief executive officer taking disciplinary action under the Crime and Corruption Act 2001 , section 273D instead of continuing disciplinary action under chapter 6, part 2, division 3.

(7) In this section—

"CCC chairperson" means the chairperson of the Crime and Corruption Commission.

"CCC chief executive officer" means the chief executive officer under the Crime and Corruption Act 2001 .

"relevant commission officer" see section 186A.