New South Wales Repealed Acts

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PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT ACT 1988 - SECT 38

38 Appointment of departmental temporary employees

(1979 Act, s 80)

(1) The appropriate Department Head may, if of the opinion that it is necessary to do so, employ temporarily a person who has appropriate qualifications to carry out work in the Department.

(1A) Persons employed under this section are departmental temporary employees.

(2) The employment of a person under subsection (1) is subject to the regulations (if any) concerning the employment of departmental temporary employees.

(3) The appropriate Department Head:

(a) may employ a person under this section for a period not exceeding 4 months, and

(b) subject to the regulations, may from time to time employ the person at the end of that period, or at the end of any subsequent period, for a further period not exceeding 4 months.

(4) A person may not be employed under this section for:

(a) a continuous period in excess of 12 months, or

(b) 2 or more periods that together are in excess of 12 months in any period of 2 years,

except with the approval of the Public Employment Office.

(5) The appropriate Department Head may dispense with the services of a departmental temporary employee at any time, but may not dispense with the services of a person employed as referred to in subsection (4) without the approval of the Public Employment Office.