Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE LEGISLATION (STREAMLINING) ACT 1986 No. 153, 1986 - SECT 5

5. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended-
(a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "Appeal Board"
and substituting the following definitions:

" 'Agency' means the Merit Protection and Review Agency established by the
Merit Protection Act;
'authorised medical practitioner' means a medical practitioner authorised, by
the Secretary to the Department of Health, to-

   (a)  perform medical examinations; and

   (b)  make recommendations in relation to redeployment or retirement,
under this Act;";

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "Chief Officer";

   (c)  by inserting after the definition of "industrial award" in sub-section
        (1) the following definition:

" 'Merit Protection Act' means the Merit Protection (Australian  Government
Employees) Act 1984 ;"; and

   (d)  by omitting sub-sections (3) and (4) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

"(3) An officer of a Department is an excess officer for the purposes of a
provision of this Act if-

   (a)  the officer is included in a class of officers employed in the
        Department, which class comprises a greater number of officers than is
        necessary for the efficient and economical working of the Department;

   (b)  the services of the officer cannot be effectively used because of
        technological or other changes in the work methods of the Department
        or changes in the nature, extent or organisation of the functions of
        the Department; or

   (c)  where the duties usually performed by the officer are to be performed
        at a different locality and the Board has determined that the
        provision applies in relation to the re-location of the performance of
        those duties-the officer is not willing to perform duties at that
        locality.".