EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922
PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
1989 No. 399
Subsection 97(1) of the Public Service Act 1922 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed.
Regulation 1 provides for the repeal of regulation 4A in order to remove Secretary powers from heads of two ACT authorities (the General Manager of the ACT Health Authority and the Chief Education Officer of the ACT Schools Authority).
Following the introduction of self-government in the ACT it has become unnecessary that the heads of these authorities have the powers of a Secretary under the Act as subsection 21(2) of the A.C.T. Self-Government (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 vests in the ACT Head of Administration the powers of a Secretary under the Act.
Regulation 2 provides that references to ACT authorities in Schedule 1AA of the Regulations be omitted. Inclusion in Schedule 1AA formerly brought these authorities within certain equal employment opportunity programs under section 22B of the Act.
However these provisions are now unnecessary as provisions similar to items 5 and 6 in Schedule 1AA of the Act are now provided for these authorities in the Electricity and Water Act 1988 (ACT) and the Community and Health Service Act 1985 (ACT).
ISSUED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE PRIME MINISTER