Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMONWEALTH LEGAL AID COMMISSION ACT 1977 No. 80 of 1977 - SECT 19

19. (1) The staff necessary to assist the Commission shall be persons employed
under the Public Service Act 1922.

(2) The Deputy Chairman of the Commission has all the powers of, or
exercisable by, a Permanent Head under the Public Service Act 1922 so far as
those powers relate to the branch of the Public Service comprising the staff
referred to in sub-section (1) as if that branch were a separate Department of
the Public Service.

(3) For the purposes of sub-sections 25 (5) and (6) of the Public Service Act
1922, the Deputy Chairman shall be deemed to be a Permanent Head.
(4) In this section, ''Deputy Chairman'' includes an acting Deputy Chairman.