Commonwealth Numbered Acts

COMMONWEALTH TEACHING SERVICE AMENDMENT ACT 1988 No. 21 of 1988 - SECT 11

11. After section 50 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:
Transfer of persons where functions to be performed by Commonwealth authority

"50A. (1) Where the Minister certifies in writing that a function that has
been performed by persons appointed or engaged under this Act is to be
performed by a Commonwealth authority, the Secretary to the Department of
Industrial Relations may, by declaration in writing published in the Gazette,
declare that officers specified in the declaration are in the employment of
the Commonwealth authority.

"(2) An officer specified in a declaration under subsection (1):

   (a)  on the day specified in the declaration for the purposes of this
        subsection, ceases to be an officer; and

   (b)  from and including that day, is employed by the Commonwealth authority
        specified in the declaration.

"(3) For the purpose of facilitating a transfer of persons into the employment
of a Commonwealth authority, the Commonwealth authority may, notwithstanding
anything in any other law (other than an industrial award), determine any
special terms and conditions of employment that are to apply to the persons.

"(4) In this section, 'officer' includes a temporary employee engaged under
section 23.".