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PUBLIC SERVICE AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AMENDMENT ACT 1985 No. 166, 1985 - SECT 23

23. After section 82B of the Principal Act the following section is inserted
in Division 10 of Part III: Administrative re-arrangements

"82BA. (1) Where -

   (a)  a Department is abolished; or

   (b)  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
        section referred to as the 'gaining Department') from the Department
        (in this 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, sub-section (2) has effect.

"(2) The Board may direct in writing that -

   (a)  where paragraph (1) (a) applies - a person who was employed in the
        abolished Department immediately before the time of the abolition is
        to be employed in another Department; or

   (b)  where paragraph (1) (b) applies - a person who was employed in the
        losing Department immediately before the time of the approval or
        establishment, as the case may be, referred to in that sub-section is
        to be employed in the gaining Department, and thereupon the person
        shall be deemed as from that time to be employed as so directed, in
        the same capacity and subject to the same conditions as were
        applicable immediately before that time.