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Act 19221 is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.
4. After section 5 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Chief object of Act
"6. The chief object of this Act is to constitute a public service for the efficient, equitable and proper conduct, in accordance with sound management practices (including personnel management practices), of the public administration of the Australian Government and this Act shall be construed accordingly.".

Interpretation
5. (1) Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting the definition of "Classification" and substituting the following definition:
        "'classification' means—
          (a) in relation to an office—a description that identifies the class of offices to which that office belongs, being a class of offices that are of a similar kind, that have responsibilities of a similar level, the performance of the duties of which requires work of similar value and the salary, or range of salaries, applicable to which are the same;
          (b) in relation to an officer who holds an office—the classification of that office; and
          (c) in relation to an unattached officer—the classification that the officer has as an unattached officer determined in accordance with sub-sections 28 (4) and 42 (2);"; and
     (b) by inserting after the definition of "Employee" in sub-section (1) the following definition:
        "'industrial award' means—
          (a) a determination under the Public Service Arbitration Act 1920;
          (b) an award or order under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904; or
          (c) a determination, award or order made by a prescribed person, tribunal or body under a law of the Commonwealth or of a Territory;".
(2) Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) the definition of "Permanent Head";
     (b) by inserting after the definition of "Returned soldier" in sub-section (1) the following definition:
        "'Secretary' means a person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, an office of Secretary;"; and
     (c) by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following definition:
        "'unattached Secretary' means a person who—
          (a) is an unattached officer; and
          (b) immediately before becoming an unattached officer held an office referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of 'office of Secretary'.".
(3) For the purposes of the definition of "unattached Secretary" in sub-section 7 (1) of the Public Service Act 1922 as amended by sub-section (2) of this section, a person who at any time before the commencement of this sub-section was a member of the First Division of the Service shall be deemed to have held at that time, an office of Secretary referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of "office of Secretary" in that sub-section.
(4) Section 7 of the Principal