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PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT ACT 1988 - SECT 10

10 Department Heads

(1979 Act, s 46)

(1) The person holding the position specified in Column 2 of Schedule 1 opposite the title or other description of a department, body, organisation or group is, for the purposes of this Act, the Department Head in relation to the Department concerned.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, a reference in Schedule 1 to a department, body, organisation or group shall be taken not to include a reference to any part of the department, body, organisation or group specified separately in that Schedule.

(5) A provision contained in any Act enacted before the date of assent to this Act does not have any effect to the extent that it would, but for this subsection, operate:

(a) to make a person a Department Head, or

(b) to authorise or require a person to exercise any functions conferred or imposed by or under this Act on a Department Head.

(6) If a person is duly authorised or required to exercise functions attaching to a position specified in Schedule 1, but is not himself or herself the holder of the position, nothing in subsection (5) prevents the person from exercising any functions that are referred to in subsection (5) (b) and exercisable by the holder (if any) of the position.