Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM ACT 1984 No. 63, 1984 - SECT 60

60. (1) Sections 54, 54A and 54B of the Principal Act are repealed.

(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 54 of the Principal Act effected by
sub-section (1) of this section, a person who, immediately before the
commencement of this section held office as Permanent Head of a Department by
virtue of an appointment under that section continues, after the commencement
of this section, to hold office as Secretary of the Department as if the
person had been appointed to that office under section 36 of the Public
Service Act 1922 as amended by section 27 of this Act.

(3) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 54B of the Principal Act effected by
sub-section (1), where an officer was, immediately before the commencement of
this section, acting in an office in accordance with that section by reason of
the absence or unavailability of the holder of that office or by reason of a
vacancy in that office, that section continues, after the commencement of
this section, to apply to and in relation to him in respect of his acting in
that office during that absence, unavailability or vacancy, as the case may
be.