New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (AREAS) ACT 1948 - SECT 42

42 Rights of certain servants for appointment

(1) A person who immediately before the appointed day holds with the Municipal Council of Sydney any office referred to in Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule shall not, by reason only of the provisions of subsection two of section eighty-eight of the Principal Act, be ineligible for appointment to fill any vacancy which may occur at any time after the appointed day in the office of town clerk to the Council of the City of Sydney.

(2) A person who immediately before the appointed day holds with the Municipal Council of Sydney any office referred to in Part 2 of the Fifth Schedule shall not, by reason only of the provisions of subsection two of section ninety of the Principal Act, be ineligible to hold the office of engineer to the Council of the City of Sydney.

(3) A person who immediately before the appointed day is an officer or servant of the Municipal Council of Sydney and whose period of service with that council is not less than twenty-five years or who holds a university degree in arts, economics or law shall not, by reason only of the provisions of subsection two of section eighty-eight of the Principal Act, be ineligible for appointment to fill any vacancy which may occur at any time after the appointed day in the office of town clerk to the Council of the City of Sydney.