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VI.".
57. Section 70 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following Part inserted in its stead:

"PART XIIa—LOSSES OF, AND DAMAGE TO, PUBLIC PROPERTY

Definition
      "70aa. (1) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears—
      'Department' means—
          (a) a Department of State;
          (b) a Department of the Parliament; or
          (c) a branch or part of the Australian Public Service in relation to which a person has, under an Act, the powers of, or exercisable by, the Permanent Head of a Department of the Australian Public Service;
      'officer' means—
          (a) a person who is employed under the Public Service Act 1922 and is ordinarily performing duties in a Department;
          (b) a member of the Commonwealth Teaching Service;
          (c) a member of the Australian Navy, the Australian Army or the Australian Air Force;
          (d) a person who holds an office of Trade Commissioner or Assistant Trade Commissioner under the Trade Commissioners Act 1933;
          (e) a person other than a member of the Australian Navy who is employed under the Naval Defence Act 1910;
          (f) a person who is employed under section 10 of the Supply and Development Act 1939;
          (g) a Commonwealth Police Officer;
          (h) a member of the Police Force of the Australian Capital Territory; or
          (j) a person employed by the Commonwealth (other than a person referred to in a preceding paragraph of this definition) who is included in a class of persons employed by the Commonwealth declared by the regulations to be a class of persons to whom this paragraph applies;
       'Permanent Head' means—
          (a) in relation to an officer who is employed in a Department of State or a Department of the Parliament—the person who, under the Public Service Act 1922, holds, or is performing the duties of, the office of Permanent Head of that Department;
          (b) in relation to an officer who is employed in a branch or part of the Australian Public Service referred to in paragraph (c) of the definition of 'Department' in this section—the person who has the powers of, or exercisable by, the Permanent Head of a Department of the Australian Public Service so far as those powers relate to that branch or part of that Service;
          (c) in relation to an officer who is a member of the Commonwealth Teaching Service—the person who holds, or is performing the duties of, the office of Commonwealth Teaching Service Commissioner under the Commonwealth Teaching Service Act 1972;
          (d) in relation to a member of the Australian Navy, the Australian Army or the Australian Air Force or to a person, other than a member of the Australian Navy, who is employed under the Naval Defence Act 1910—the person who, under the Public Service Act