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of the Board, to another member of the Board, to an officer or employee or to a person appointed to an office, under a law of the Commonwealth, by the Governor-General or a Minister" and substituting "a person (not being a person engaged as a consultant under section 4 of the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984)"; and
     (b) by omitting sub-section (4).

Records of officers
9. Section 21 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting sub-section (1) and substituting the following sub-section:
     "(1) The Board shall cause to be kept a record of each officer, showing—
     (a) the date of birth of the officer;
     (b) the date on which the officer was appointed to the Service; and

     (c) the classification of the officer.".
10. (1) After Part II of the Principal Act the following Part is inserted:

"PART IIA—PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

Personnel management reviews
"22a. (1) The Board may, by notice in writing to the Secretary of a Department, require the Secretary to give the Board, within the time specified in the notice, a report in writing on personnel management in the Department.
"(2) A notice under sub-section (1) may specify the particular aspects of personnel management that are to be dealt with in the report.
"(3) Where, pursuant to a notice under sub-section (1), the Secretary of a Department gives a report to the Board, the Board, after considering the report, may make recommendations to the Secretary on the action that should or could be taken to improve personnel management in the Department.
"(4) If the Secretary does not concur in or adopt a recommendation made by the Board under sub-section (3) on the action that should be taken to improve personnel management in the Department, the Secretary shall, within a reasonable time, inform the Minister administering the Department, in writing, of his reasons for not concurring in or not adopting the recommendation and give a copy of a statement of those reasons to the Board.
"(5) The Board shall, in a report furnished to the Prime Minister in accordance with section 22, report on the operation of this section.".
(2) If this section comes into operation during the first 6 months of a financial year, the Board shall report on the operation of section 22a of the Public Service Act 1922, in relation to the period commencing on the day on which this section comes into operation and ending on the expiration of that financial year, in the first report that is furnished to the Prime Minister, under section 22 of that Act, after the expiration of that financial year.
(3) If this section comes into operation during the last 6 months of a financial year, the