Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person shall not be appointed to fill a vacancy in an office within the parliamentary service unless the vacancy has been notified in the gazette.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the office in which the vacancy exists--
(a) is of a temporary nature; or
(b) is an office of a class of office prescribed by rules made by the Speaker to be a class of office in respect of which a vacancy need not be advertised.
(3) The reclassification of an office creates a vacancy in that office for the purposes of subsection (1).