New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 67

67 Temporary appointments

(2) Without limiting section 90, the Commissioner may appoint temporarily to a vacant position of a non-executive police officer a police officer who is on the relevant promotion list for the rank or grade concerned, or is in the process of gaining the requisite qualifications for placement on that list, subject to the following:

(a) before the appointment can be made, the Commissioner and officer must agree, in writing, as to the command in which the officer will serve if the officer is not permanently appointed to the vacant position, and

(b) if the officer has permanently relocated his or her principal residence because of the temporary appointment, the officer is entitled to the costs and expenses of any further relocation agreed to under paragraph (a), those costs and expenses to be calculated in accordance with any relevant industrial award or enterprise agreement for transferred officers under the Industrial Relations Act 1996 , and

(c) if the officer has relocated his or her principal place of residence because of the temporary appointment and has entered into an agreement, in writing, with the Commissioner to stay within the command to which the officer has been transferred if the officer is not permanently appointed to the vacant position, the officer cannot be involuntarily transferred under section 69 (except in accordance with action taken under section 173 (2) (d)) within a period of 3 years after the relocation.

(3) An officer who ceases to be temporarily appointed to a position and who is not permanently appointed to the position has no right of return to the position from which the officer was temporarily appointed, unless:

(a) the officer has entered into an agreement under subsection (2) (a) to return to the command from which the officer was temporarily appointed, and

(b) no other officer has been appointed to the position from which the officer was temporarily appointed.

(4) An administrative officer may not be appointed under this section to the position of a police officer.

(5) The Commissioner may, at any time, terminate a temporary appointment under this section.

(6) Section 66 does not apply to a temporary appointment under this section.