WATER CORPORATIONS ACT 1995 - SECT 16

WATER CORPORATIONS ACT 1995 - SECT 16

16 .         Minimum standards for staff management

        (1)         The board of a corporation must, after consultation with the Public Sector Commissioner, prepare and issue an instrument setting out minimum standards of merit, equity and probity applicable to the management of the staff of the corporation.

        (2)         In subsection (1) —

        management includes recruitment, selection, appointment, transfer, secondment, performance management, redeployment, discipline and termination of employment.

        (3)         In complying with subsection (1) the board is to have regard to the principles set out in section 8 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994 .

        (4)         An instrument issued under subsection (1) may be expressed to apply to the chief executive officer of the corporation as if the chief executive officer were a member of staff.

        (4A)         If an instrument issued under subsection (1) applies to the chief executive officer of the corporation, subsection (3) does not affect the operation of the GTE Act section 37(5).

        (5)         The Public Sector Commissioner may at any time recommend to the board any amendment that he or she thinks should be made to an instrument issued under this section.

        (6)         The board may —

            (a)         amend an instrument issued under this section; or

            (b)         revoke it and substitute a new instrument,

                but, except where subsection (5) applies, is to do so only after consultation with the Public Sector Commissioner.

        [Section 16 amended: No. 39 of 2010 s. 87(3); No. 25 of 2012 s. 190; No. 13 of 2023 s. 263.]