PUBLIC
SERVICE (PERMANENT HEAD—DUAL
APPOINTMENT) ACT
1977
No.
133 of 1977
An Act to authorize the
appointment of the one person to hold, or to act in, the offices of Secretary
to the Department of Overseas Trade and Secretary to the Department of the Special
Trade Negotiator.
BE
IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited
as the Public Service (Permanent Head—Dual Appointment) Act 1977.
Commencement
2. This Act shall come
into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Dual appointments
3. (1) A person who at any
time holds the office of Secretary to the Department of Overseas Trade may be
appointed to hold, or to act in, the office of Secretary to the Department of
the Special Trade Negotiator and shall not, by reason only of being so appointed,
cease to hold the first-mentioned office.
(2) A
person, not being the holder of the office of Secretary to the Department of
Overseas Trade, who at any time holds an appointment to act in that office may
be appointed to act in the office of Secretary to the Department of the Special
Trade Negotiator and shall not, by reason only of being so appointed, cease to
hold the first-mentioned appointment.
(3) If a
person who holds both the office of Secretary to the Department of Overseas
Trade and the office of Secretary to the Department of the Special Trade
Negotiator ceases for any reason to hold the first-mentioned office, he
thereupon also ceases, by force of this sub-section, to hold the
second-mentioned office.
Remuneration
4. A person who holds, or
holds an appointment to act in, the office of Secretary to the Department of
Overseas Trade and also holds, or holds an appointment to act in, the office of
Secretary to the Department of the Special Trade Negotiator shall not be paid
any remuneration, whether by way of salary, annual allowance or otherwise, in
respect of his holding, or holding the appointment to act in, the
last-mentioned office.
This Act to have effect notwithstanding certain other Acts
5. This Act has effect
notwithstanding anything contained in the Public
Service Act 1922 or the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973.
Application of sub-section 19b(3)
of Acts Interpretation Act
6. Nothing in this Act
shall be construed as excluding the application of sub-section 19b(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act
1901 in relation to any provision of this Act.