New South Wales Consolidated Acts

POLICE ACT 1990 - SECT 70

70 Promotion lists

(1) The Commissioner is to establish promotion lists of police officers eligible for promotion to the rank or grade within a rank of sergeant, senior sergeant, inspector and superintendent.

(2) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following matters:

(a) the requirements for placement on a promotion list,

(b) without limiting paragraph (a), criteria for eligibility to undertake requirements (including meeting quota requirements),

(c) the ranking of police officers on a promotion list,

(d) the period for which a police officer may remain on a promotion list or replacement promotion lists for the same rank or grade within a rank,

(e) the appointment of persons from a promotion list to a rank or grade within a rank to which the list applies,

(f) reviews of assessment of requirements for placement on a promotion list and of ranking on a promotion list,

(g) reviews or appeals against a decision to suspend or remove a person from a promotion list, or to refuse a person the right to participate or continue to participate in any part of the process to obtain placement on a list, on integrity grounds,

(h) without limiting paragraph (f) or (g), the procedures for and conduct of reviews,

(i) circumstances in which a person may be removed or suspended from or restored to a promotion list,

(j) the period for which, or the circumstances in which, a promotion list remains current,

(k) notification of a decision to suspend or remove a person from a promotion list, or to refuse a person the right to participate or continue to participate in any part of the process to obtain placement on a list, on integrity grounds.