Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES (REDEPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT) ACT 1979 No. 52 of 1979 - SECT 18

Division 2-Compulsory Retirement

18. (1) If, upon report to the Governor-General by the Public Service Board
after investigation by the Board into the circumstances, it appears to the
Governor-General that a person included in the First Division of the
Australian Public Service is inefficient or incompetent, or is, by reason of
physical or mental incapacity, incapable of performing his duties, the
Governor-General may retire the officer from the Australian Public Service on
a date to be specified by the Governor-General, or may transfer him to some
other office, with salary appropriate to that other office.

(2) In the case of a retirement of an officer under sub-section (1) on the
ground that he is, by reason of physical or mental incapacity, incapable of
performing his duties, the date from which he is retired may, with the consent
of the officer, be a date earlier than the date on which the decision by the
Governor-General to retire him was made.