POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 66AB Promotion appointments to specialist positions requiring specific qualifications--provisional appointments

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 66AB

66AB Promotion appointments to specialist positions requiring specific qualifications--provisional appointments

(1) This section applies in relation to a vacant specialist position that requires a specific qualification if none of the applicants for the position holds the qualification.

(2) The Commissioner may appoint by way of promotion to the position a police officer who does not hold the qualification.

(3) The Commissioner must appoint the police officer to the position on a provisional basis for a period (the
"provisional period" ) determined by the Commissioner.

(4) The Commissioner must permanently appoint the police officer to the position if--

(a) the officer obtains the qualification within the provisional period, and

(b) the officer has, in the opinion of the Commissioner, demonstrated satisfactory performance in the position within the provisional period.

(5) If the police officer is not permanently appointed under subsection (4) within the provisional period, at the end of the provisional period the officer returns to the rank and grade the officer would have held at the end of the provisional period had the officer not been provisionally appointed to the specialist position.

(6) Section 66AA applies to an appointment under this section.

Note : Section 66A contains an exception to this section.