PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 92

PUBLIC SECTOR MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 92

92 .         Employee convicted of serious offence, powers as to

        (1)         Despite the Sentencing Act 1995 section 11, if an employee is convicted or found guilty of a serious offence, the employing authority may take disciplinary action or improvement action, or both disciplinary action and improvement action, with respect to the employee.

        (2)         Before any disciplinary action or improvement action is taken with respect to an employee under this section, the employee must be given an opportunity to make a submission in relation to the action that the employing authority is considering taking.

        (3)         If an employee is dismissed under this section, for the purposes of sections 58(4) and 59(1) the employee is taken to have been dismissed for breach of discipline.

        [Section 92 inserted: No. 39 of 2010 s. 105.]