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IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Public Service and Statutory Authorities Amendment Act 1985.

Commencement
2. (1) Sections 1, 2, 3 and 5, sub-section 30 (8) and sections 31, 35, 40 and 43 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.
(2) Section 24 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 15 March 1981.
(3) Sections 12 and 15 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 22 December 1984.

(4) Section 44 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 21 July 1985.
(5) Sections 27, 28 and 29 shall come into operation, or shall be deemed to have come into operation, as the case requires, on the commencement of section 27 of the Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 1984.
(6) Sections 14, 18, 21 and 22, sub-sections 30 (1) to (7) (inclusive) and sections 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38 and 39 shall come into operation on a day, or on respective days, to be fixed by Proclamation.
(7) The remaining provisions of this Act shall come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

PART II—AMENDMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922

Principal Act
3. The Public Service Act 19221 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.