• Specific Year
    Any

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 595 Preservation of rights if public service officer seconded

LEGAL PROFESSION ACT 2007 - SECT 595

Preservation of rights if public service officer seconded

595 Preservation of rights if public service officer seconded

(1) A public service officer seconded as mentioned in section 592 (3)
(a) is entitled to the person’s existing and accruing rights as if employment as a member of the staff of the commission were a continuation of employment as a public service officer; and
(b) may apply for positions, and be employed in, the public service as if the person were a public service officer.
(2) When the secondment ends, the person’s employment on secondment as a member of the staff of the commission is employment of the same nature in the public service for working out the person’s rights as a public service officer.
(3) If the secondment ended for a reason other than misconduct, the person is entitled to be employed—
(a) as a public service officer; and
(b) on the same, or a higher, classification level and remuneration that the Public Sector Commissioner under the Public Sector Act 2022 or another entity prescribed under a regulation considers the person would have attained in the ordinary course of progression if the person had not been seconded.