Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE ACT 1979 - SECT 40G

Secondment has no effect on person's status

  (1)   The secondment under section   40F of a person who is an AFP employee does not affect:

  (a)   the person's status as an AFP employee; and

  (b)   if the person is a member--the person's status as a member; and

  (c)   the application of any provision of this Act in relation to the person during the period of the secondment.

AFP professional standards obligations etc. continue

  (2)   During a period of secondment of an AFP employee under section   40F, the employee remains subject to the same obligations and liabilities in relation to AFP professional standards as those to which the employee would, but for the secondment, have been subject as such an employee.

Rights etc. arising from office or position to which person seconded

  (3)   Nothing in this section affects:

  (a)   any rights, powers or immunities that an AFP employee who is seconded under section   40F has by virtue of holding the office or position to which the employee has been seconded; or

  (b)   the extent to which the employee is subject to obligations or liabilities in relation to discipline by virtue of holding the office or position to which the employee has been seconded.