Commonwealth Numbered Acts

AUSTRALIAN TRADE COMMISSION (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) ACT 1985 No. 187 of 1985 - SECT 16

16. Where a class of persons specified in a declaration published in the
Gazette pursuant to sub-section 12 (1) includes persons (in this section
referred to as "transferred officers") who are officers of the Australian
Public Service and to whom Part IV of the Public Service Act 1922 did not,
immediately before the day with effect from which the Minister declared that
class of persons to be in the employment of the Commission, apply, there shall
be deemed to have been made, on that day -

   (a)  a declaration declaring the matters in connection with which those
        transferred officers were performing duties immediately before that
        day as officers of the Australian Public Service to be a declared
        Commonwealth function and declaring the duties of those
        transferred officers to be connected with the performance of that
        declared Commonwealth function; and

   (b)  a declaration declaring the matters in connection with which those
        transferred officers are performing duties on and after that day as
        employees of the Commission to be a prescribed function corresponding
        to that declared Commonwealth function and declaring employment by the
        Commission to be employment connected with the performance of a
        prescribed function.