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Act is repealed.
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal effected by sub-section (1), section 75a of the Principal Act continues to apply in relation to a person who was a former officer of the Northern Territory Service within the meaning of that section.

Termination of appointment
69. Section 76e of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (3) "Chairman" and substituting "Head of the Public Service Board".

70. After section 76f of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Special benefits available to retiring unattached Secretaries
"76fa. (1) The Board may give notice in writing to an unattached Secretary that if the unattached Secretary retires from the Service within the period specified in the notice he or she will be entitled to a specified benefit in accordance with a determination under section 82d.
"(2) Where notice is given to an unattached Secretary under sub-section (1)—
     (a) the unattached Secretary may retire from the Service within the period specified in the notice notwithstanding that he or she is not entitled to retire from the Service under section 76b; and
     (b) if the unattached Secretary retires from the Service within the period specified in the notice—
         (i) he or she becomes entitled to the benefit specified in the notice; and
         (ii) he or she shall be deemed for all purposes to have been compulsorily retired from the Service.
"(3) In this section, 'unattached Secretary' does not include an unattached Secretary who, immediately before becoming an unattached Secretary, held an office of Secretary in relation to which section 9 applied.".

71. Section 76h of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section is substituted:

Interpretation
"76h. In this Division, 'Appeal Committee' means a Redeployment and Retirement Appeal Committee constituted under Subdivision D of Division 2 of Part II of the Merit Protection Act.".

Repeal of section 76k
72. Section 76k of the Principal Act is repealed.

Redeployment and retirement of Senior Executive Service officers
73. Section 76l of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting sub-section (1) and substituting the following sub-section:
    "(1) Where, in relation to a Senior Executive Service officer of a particular classification, the Board, after having taken reasonable steps to identify Senior Executive Service offices—
         (a) that are of the same or equal classification;
         (b) to which the officer could be transferred or the duties of which the officer could be directed to perform; and
         (c) the duties of which the officer could, in the opinion of the Board, perform efficiently,
    is satisfied that the services of the officer cannot reasonably be used in the Service in the performance of the duties of, or duties appropriate to, a Senior Executive Service office of the same or