EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRIME MINISTER
Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 1984
Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees)
Regulations (Amendment)
1989 No. 411
Subsection 85(1) of the Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 1984 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed.
The regulation amends regulation 9 of the Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Regulations. Regulation 9 provides that a reference in section 33 of the Act to an “appropriate organization” from which a person shall be nominated to be on a Re-integration Assessment Committee, is an organization registered under the Industrial Relations Act 1988.
The purpose of the amendment to these Regulations is so that these Regulations reflect other proposed modifications to the Public Service Act 1922 and to the Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 1984 by Regulations made under subsection 31(1) of the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988. (The modifications to these Acts deal with the re-integration of former staff of members of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory into the Australian Capital Territory transitional staff.)
The amendment deals with the situation where a former member of staff of an ACT Legislative Assembly Member makes an application for re-integration into the Australian Capital Territory transitional staff. In such cases the regulation provides that the Re-integration Assessment Committee will be constituted in a similar way as for an application made under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.
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