TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 68F Senior executives--employment in bands and assignment to roles

TRANSPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT 1988 - SECT 68F

68F Senior executives--employment in bands and assignment to roles

(1) A Transport Service senior executive is to be employed in the Public Service senior executive band that the Transport Secretary considers appropriate for the role of the executive.

(2) In determining the number of Transport Service senior executives and the appropriate band in which they are employed, the Transport Secretary is to apply the applicable work level standards and have regard to any guidance provided by the Public Service Commissioner.

(3) A Transport Service senior executive may, from time to time, be assigned by the Transport Secretary to a role in any part of the Transport Service in the band in which the executive is employed.

(4) A Transport Service senior executive may--

(a) be transferred by the Transport Secretary to the Public Service of New South Wales and assigned to a role in any Public Service agency in the band in which the executive is employed (with the agreement of the head of that agency), or

(b) be transferred by the Transport Secretary to the NSW Police Force and assigned to a role (other than as a police officer) in the band in which the executive is employed (with the agreement of the Commissioner of Police), or

(c) be transferred by the Transport Secretary to the NSW Health Service and assigned to a role in the band in which the executive is employed (with the agreement of the Secretary of the Ministry of Health).

Note : A Transport Service senior executive may not be assigned to the role of chief executive of a local health district or specialty network governed health corporation except with the concurrence of the board of the organisation concerned--see section 121D (11) of the Health Services Act 1997 .

(5) Transport Service senior executives may be assigned to roles under this section to enable the flexible deployment of staff resources and to develop the capabilities of staff.

(6) A Transport Service senior executive is not to be assigned to a different role under this section unless the executive has been consulted. The remuneration payable to the executive is not to be reduced because of the assignment to the different role without the consent of the executive. This subsection extends to a transfer under subsection (4).

(7) In this section--


"assign" to a role includes assign to a different role.


"role" of a Transport Service senior executive means the duties and responsibilities of the executive.