Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE REFORM ACT 1984 No. 63, 1984 - SECT 10

10. (1) After Part II of the Principal Act the following Part is inserted:

                       ''PART  IIA-PERSONNEL  MANAGEMENT
Personnel management reviews

''22A. (1) The Board may, by notice in writing to the Secretary of a
Department, require the Secretary to give the Board, within the time specified
in the notice, a report in writing on personnel management in the Department.

''(2) A notice under sub-section (1) may specify the particular aspects of
personnel management that are to be dealt with in the report.

''(3) Where, pursuant to a notice under sub-section (1), the Secretary of a
Department gives a report to the Board, the Board, after considering the
report, may make recommendations to the Secretary on the action that should or
could be taken to improve personnel management in the Department.

''(4) If the Secretary does not concur in or adopt a recommendation made by
the Board under sub-section (3) on the action that should be taken to improve
personnel management in the Department, the Secretary shall, within a
reasonable time, inform the Minister administering the Department, in writing,
of his reasons for not concurring in or not adopting the recommendation and
give a copy of a statement of those reasons to the Board.

''(5) The Board shall, in a report furnished to the Prime Minister in
accordance with section 22, report on the operation of this section.''.

(2) If this section comes into operation during the first 6 months of a
financial year, the Board shall report on the operation of section 22A of the
Public Service Act 1922, in relation to the period commencing on the day on
which this section comes into operation and ending on the expiration of that
financial year, in the first report that is furnished to the Prime Minister,
under section 22 of that Act, after the expiration of that financial year.

(3) If this section comes into operation during the last 6 months of a
financial year, the Board shall report on the operation of section 22A of the
Public Service Act 1922, in relation to the period commencing on the day on
which this section comes into operation and expiring at the end of that
financial year, in the first report that is furnished to the Prime Minister,
under section 22 of that Act, after the expiration of the financial year next
succeeding that financial year.