1996
   The Parliament of the
   Commonwealth of Australia
   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
   Presented and read a first time
   Public Service Amendment Bill 1996
   No. , 1996
   (Prime Minister)
   A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Service Act 1922

   9618220--975/28.11.1996--(182/96) Cat. No. 96 5559 X ISBN 0644 483083

   Contents

   Public Service Act 1922 6pubsah1.html

   A Bill for an Act to amend the Public Service Act 1922

   The Parliament of Australia enacts:

      1 Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Public Service Amendment Act 1996.

      2 Commencement

   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

      3 Schedule(s)

   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
   repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned,
   and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to
   its terms.

        Schedule 1--Amendments

   Public Service Act 1922

   1 Subsection 63JA(3)

   After "63L(8)", insert "and (9)".

   2 Subsection 63L(1)

   After "is", insert "or was".

   3 At the end of section 63L

   Add:

   (9) If a person ceases to be an unattached officer but remains an
   officer:

   (a) the person may be charged under this section with any misconduct
   committed while the person was an unattached officer; and

   (b) this Subdivision applies to the person in relation to the charge;
   and

   (c) any action may be taken by or against the person under this
   Subdivision in relation to the charge;

   as if the person had remained an unattached officer.

   (10) Subsection (9) applies to a person who ceases to be an unattached
   officer, whether or not the cessation occurs after that subsection
   commences.

   (11) Subsection (9) applies to misconduct, whether or not the
   misconduct was committed after that subsection commences.