STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 79 Temporary employment

STATUTE LAW REVISION ACT 1981 No. 61, 1981 - SECT 79

79. Section 82 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (6B)
and substituting the following sub-section:



"(6B) The services of an employee to whom the Commonwealth Employees 
(Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979 applies shall not be dispensed with
under sub-section (6) except on -

   (a)  the ground that the person has wilfully disobeyed, or wilfully
        disregarded, a direction given by a person having authority to give
        the direction, being a direction with which it is his duty as an
        employee to comply;

   (b)  the ground that he is inefficient or incompetent for reasons or causes
        within his own control;

   (c)  the ground that he is negligent or careless in the discharge of his
        duties as an employee;

   (d)  the ground that he has engaged in improper conduct as an employee;

   (e)  the ground that he has engaged in improper conduct otherwise than as
        an employee, being conduct that affects adversely the performance of
        his duties as an employee or brings the Service into disrepute;

   (f)  the ground that he has contravened or failed to comply with -

        (i)    a provision of this Act, of the regulations or of a
               determination in force under sub-section 9 (7A) or section 82D,
               being a provision that is applicable to him; or

        (ii)   the terms and conditions upon which he is employed;

   (g)  the ground that he has, whether before or after becoming an employee,
        wilfully supplied to an officer or another person acting on behalf of
        the Commonwealth incorrect or misleading information in connection
        with his being accepted as an employee in the Service; or

   (h)  the ground that -

        (i)    a court has, after 15 September 1980, convicted him of a
               criminal offence or found, without recording a conviction, that
               he has committed such an offence; and

        (ii)   the nature and seriousness of that offence, the circumstances
               in which that offence was committed and the nature of his
               duties, are such that it is in the interests of the Service
               that his services should be dispensed with.".