Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES (REDEPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT) ACT 1979 No. 52 of 1979 - SECT 21

21. (1) At any time after a medical practitioner employed in the Department of
Health has recommended, in writing, that an employee who holds an office in
the Second, Third or Fourth Division of the Australian Public Service, being
an officer who has, for the reason referred to in sub-paragraph 7 (1) (b)
(ii), been declared to be eligible for redeployment, be retired on the ground
that he is, by reason of physical or mental incapacity, incapable of
performing his duties, the Board may declare, by instrument in writing, that
the employee shall, on a date specified in the instrument, become an
unattached officer and, if the Board does so, the office so held by the
officer becomes vacant on the date so specified.

(2) As soon as practicable after a declaration is made under sub-section (1)
in respect of an employee a copy of the declaration shall be furnished to the
employee.