POLICE SERVICE ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 5.7
Conditions of employment of commissioned officers
POLICE SERVICE ADMINISTRATION ACT 1990 - SECT 5.7
Conditions of employment of commissioned officers
5.7 Conditions of employment of commissioned officers
(1) Appointment to a position as a commissioned officer, including by way of
promotion—
(a) if the position is prescribed as one open to appointment on a
part-time basis—may be on the basis of part-time employment; or
(b) in the
case of any other position—is to be on the basis of full-time employment.
(2) A person—
(a) is to be appointed to, and employed in, a position as a
commissioned officer on salary upon a tenure not limited by time, if the
position is not one referred to in paragraph (b) or (c) ;
(b) if a position
of commissioned officer is prescribed as one open to appointment upon a
limited duration of tenure—may be appointed to and employed in the position
upon a limited duration of tenure;
(c) if a position of commissioned officer
is prescribed as one open to appointment on a contract basis—may be
appointed to and employed in the position on a contract basis—
(3)
The conditions of employment from time to time of a commissioned officer duly
appointed on a contract basis—
(a) are such as are for the time being
approved by the commissioner and accepted by the person who is, or is to be,
the commissioned officer; and
(b) are to be governed by a contract of
employment made, or taken to be made, between the Crown and the commissioned
officer; and
(c) are not subject to any industrial instrument or any
determination or rule of an industrial authority.
(4) If an offer of a
contract of employment as a commissioned officer, on conditions in writing
approved by the commissioner in relation to the appointment, is made to a
person before that person’s appointment as commissioned officer, the person,
on accepting appointment as commissioned officer, is taken to have made with
the Crown (and the Crown is taken to have made with the appointee) a contract
of employment that accords with the contract last offered to the person before
the appointment was made.
