LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 5.37
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1995 - SECT 5.37
5.37 . Senior employees
(1) A local government
may designate employees or persons belonging to a class of employee to be
senior employees.
(2) The CEO is to
inform the council of each proposal to employ or dismiss a senior employee,
other than a senior employee referred to in section 5.39(1a), and the council
may accept or reject the CEO’s recommendation but if the council rejects
a recommendation, it is to inform the CEO of the reasons for its doing so.
(3) Unless subsection
(4A) applies, if the position of a senior employee of a local government
becomes vacant, it is to be advertised by the local government in the manner
prescribed, and the advertisement is to contain such information with respect
to the position as is prescribed.
(4A) Subsection (3)
does not require a position to be advertised if it is proposed that the
position be filled by a person in a prescribed class.
(4) For the avoidance
of doubt, subsection (3) does not impose a requirement to advertise a position
where a contract referred to in section 5.39 is renewed.
[Section 5.37 amended: No. 49 of 2004 s. 45 and
46(4); No. 17 of 2009 s. 22.]