EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Public Service Regulations (Amendment)
1982 No. 54
Issued with the Authority of the Public Service Board
Sub-section 97(1) of the Public Service Act 1922 provides in part that: -
‘The Board may, with the approval of the Governor-General, make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, to prescribe all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or for giving effect to this Act and in particular for the following, namely:
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(v) for prescribing, where there is no provision or no sufficient provision in this Act, in respect to any matter or thing necessary to give effect to this Act, in what manner and form the want of provision or insufficient provision shall be supplied;’
The purpose of these Statutory Rules is to insert in the Public Service Regulations a regulation affording protection from civil and criminal proceedings to members of Promotions Appeal Committees and Central Promotions Appeal Committees constituted under section 50 of the Public Service Act where they act in the performance of their duties in good faith. The proposed regulation will not, however, have the effect of excluding the decisions of Promotions Appeal Committees and Central Promotions Appeal Committees from review under the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act.