Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM ACT 1984 No. 63, 1984 - SECT 83

83. Section 76F of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section
(1) the following sub-sections:

''(1A) Where the Board is satisfied that it is likely that an unattached
Secretary referred to in sub-section (1) will not be appointed, within a
reasonable time, to a relevant office, the Board may-

   (a)  give notice in writing to the unattached Secretary that it intends to
        redeploy him into the Senior Executive Service as soon as practicable
        after the expiration of the period of 28 days commencing on the day on
        which the notice is given to the unattached Secretary; and

   (b)  after the expiration of that period-

        (i)    transfer the unattached Secretary to an office having a
               classification that is the highest Senior Executive Service
               classification; or

        (ii)   direct that the unattached Secretary's classification as an
               unattached officer be reduced to the classification that is the
               highest Senior Executive Service classification.

''(1B) If an unattached Secretary who is given notice under sub-section (1A)
elects, by notice in writing given to the Board within the period referred to
in paragraph (1A) (a), to retire from the Service, the unattached Secretary
shall not be redeployed into the Senior Executive Service but shall be deemed
for all purposes to have been compulsorily retired from the Service at the
expiration of the period referred to in paragraph (1A) (a) or on such earlier
day (not being earlier than the day next following the day of the election) as
is specified in the notice of election.''.