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sub-section:
    "(1) The Secretary of a Department may formulate and operate a Staff Suggestions Scheme to encourage officers and employees to make suggestions for achieving any of the following objects:
         (a) the promotion or improvement of efficiency, or the effecting of economies, in the management and working of the Department;
         (b) the improvement of the standard of safety in the operations of the Department.";
     (b) by omitting from sub-section (2) "Board" (wherever occurring) and substituting "Secretary"; and
     (c) by omitting sub-section (3) and substituting the following sub-section:
    "(3) A Secretary may vary or discontinue a Staff Suggestions Scheme.".

Performance of work outside the Service
99. Section 91 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "Board" and substituting "Secretary of the Department";
     (b) by omitting from sub-section (1) "no officer shall" and substituting "an officer of a Department shall not";
     (c) by omitting from paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) "or" (last occurring);
     (d) by inserting after paragraph (d) the following paragraph:
         "(da) act as a director of a company or incorporated society, otherwise than in accordance with the requirements of the duties of the officer's office or otherwise on behalf of the Commonwealth; or"; and
     (e) by omitting sub-sections (3), (4), (5) and (6).

Effect of appointments, &c., by Board, &c.
100. Section 92 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting ", a Secretary or a Chief Officer, as the case may be, under this Act," and substituting "or a Secretary under this Act".

Regulations
101. Section 97 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from paragraph (1) (g) "Board" and substituting "Committee";
     (b) by omitting from paragraph (1) (k) "regulating" and substituting "making provision about"; and
     (c) by inserting in sub-section (3) ", or of an industrial award," after "section 82d".

Certain promotions deemed to be made under section 53
102. An officer who, after 22 December 1984, was promoted to an office in relation to which successful completion of the Clerical Selection Test was a condition notified under paragraph 33a (1) (d) of the Public Service Act 1922 shall be deemed for all purposes to have been promoted to that office under section 53 of that Act.

PART III—AMENDMENTS OF MERIT PROTECTION (AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) ACT 1984

Principal Act
103. The Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 19842 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Interpretation
104. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "Chief Officer"; and
     (b) by inserting after the definition of "Public Service Board" in sub-section (1) the following definition:
         " 'relevant Secretary' has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1922;".