Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Ombudsman Act 1973 - SECT 8

Application of Public Administration Act 2004

8. Application of Public Administration Act 2004







(1) A person who is the Ombudsman or Acting Ombudsman is not, in respect of
the office of Ombudsman or Acting Ombudsman, subject to the
Public Administration Act 2004.











(2) A person who is the Ombudsman or Acting Ombudsman and who, immediately
before his or her appointment as such was an employee in the public service-







   (a)  is eligible to be employed in the public service at the termination of
        his or her office as the Ombudsman or Acting Ombudsman with a
        classification and emolument corresponding with or higher than that
        which he or she last held or received in the public service
        immediately before his or her appointment as the Ombudsman or Acting
        Ombudsman as if his or her service as the Ombudsman or Acting
        Ombudsman had been service in the public service; and

   (b)  for the purposes of long service leave, is to be taken to continue to
        be an employee in the public service while he or she was Ombudsman or
        Acting Ombudsman.