Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES (REDEPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT) ACT 1979 No. 52 of 1979 - SECT 8

8. (1) The Public Service Board may, from time to time, publish in the Gazette
a notice setting out administrative procedures to be followed by Departments
for the purpose of facilitating the achievement of the objects of this Part.

(2) A prescribed Commonwealth authority may, from time to time, but only after
consultation with the Public Service Board, publish in the Gazette a notice
setting out administrative procedures to be followed by the authority for the
purpose of facilitating the achievement of the objects of this Part.

(3) Without limiting the generality of sub-section (1) or (2), the
administrative procedures-

   (a)  may specify criteria by reference to which-

        (i)    an employee in a Department or a part of a Department; or

        (ii)   an employee of an authority, or an employee of an authority
               employed in a branch of the authority,

may be identified as an employee whose services cannot, for a reason referred
to in sub-paragraph 7 (1) (b) (i), (ii) or (iii), reasonably be used in the
Department, in that part of the Department, by the authority or by the
authority in that branch, as the case may be, consistently with the
achievement of the first object of this Part by the Department or authority,
as the case may be;

   (b)  may make provision for defining the occasions on which, or
        circumstances in which, those procedures should be given effect to for
        the purpose of determining whether the services of any employee in the
        Department, or of the authority, cannot, consistently with the
        achievement of the first object of this Part, reasonably be used in
        the Department or by the authority; and

   (c)  may, in the case of procedures set out in a notice under sub-section
        (1), make provision for authorizing the Public Service Board, by
        notice in writing given to the Permanent Head of a Department, to
        direct that effect be given to the procedures in relation to a
        specified employee, or a specified class of employees, in the
        Department.

(4) The Public Service Board may revoke, or from time to time vary, a notice
published by it under sub-section (1).

(5) A prescribed Commonwealth authority may, after consultation with the
Public Service Board, revoke, or from time to time vary, a notice published by
it under sub-section (2).

(6) A reference in this section to an employee does not include a reference to
a person who is included in the First Division of the Australian Public
Service.