Queensland Numbered Acts Queensland Numbered Acts(1) This section applies if—
(a) a person is appointed as a commissioner; and
(b) the person resigns the person's role as a public service officer in order to accept the appointment.
(2) The person retains and is entitled to all rights that have accrued to the person because of the person's employment as a public service officer, or that would accrue in the future to the person because of that employment, as if service as the commissioner were a continuation of service as a public service officer.
(3) At the end of the person's term of office or on resignation—
(a) the person is entitled to be appointed to an office in the public service at a salary level not less than the current salary level of an office equivalent to the office the person held before being appointed as the commissioner; and
(b) the person's service as the commissioner is to be regarded as service of a like nature in the public service for deciding the person's rights as a public service officer.