Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1999 - SECT 6

             (1)  All persons engaged on behalf of the Commonwealth as employees to perform functions in a Department or Executive Agency must be engaged under this Act, or under the authority of another Act.

             (2)  Subsection (1) does not apply to:

                     (a)  persons engaged on an honorary basis; or

                     (b)  persons engaged to perform services in the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.

             (3)  This section does not, by implication, affect any power that an Agency Head might otherwise have to engage persons as independent contractors.