Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 170, 1978 - SECT 39

39. (1) After section 101 of the Postal Services Act 1975*3* the following
section is inserted: Officers' Rights Declaration Act
''101A. Where the Managing Director, the Chief General Manager, a Chairman of
a Promotions Appeal Board, an officer or an employee was, immediately before
his appointment or engagement, a person, other than an unattached officer in
the Postmaster-General's Department, to whom the Officers' Rights Declaration
Act 1928 applied-

   (a)  he retains his existing and accruing rights;

   (b)  for the purpose of determining those rights his service under this Act
        shall be taken into account as if it were service in the
        Australian Public Service; and

   (c)  the Officers' Rights Declaration Act 1928 applies as if this Act and
        this section had been specified in the Schedule to that Act.''.

(2) Section 116 of the Postal Services Act 1975 is amended by omitting
paragraph (e).

(3) The amendment made by sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have taken effect
on 1 July 1975.