Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AMENDMENT ACT 1985 No. 166, 1985 - SECT 11

11. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended -

   (a)  by omitting from sub-section (2) all the words before paragraph (a)
        and substituting the following:

"Where, by virtue of administrative arrangements approved by the
Governor-General or the Prime Minister, or by virtue of the establishment, by
an Act, of a Department of a kind referred to in paragraph (b) of the
definition of 'Department' in sub-section 7 (1), a matter is to be dealt with
by a different Department (in this subsection referred to as the 'gaining
Department') from the Department (in this sub-section referred to as the
'losing Department') by which that matter was dealt with immediately before
that approval or establishment, as the case may be, the Prime Minister may, in
writing -";

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) "second-mentioned" (twice
        occurring) and substituting "losing";

   (c)  by omitting from sub-paragraph (2) (a) (ii) "ancilliary" and
        substituting "ancillary"; and

   (d)  by omitting from paragraph (2) (b) "first-mentioned" (twice occurring)
        and substituting "gaining".