Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00795:section:7:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00795
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 7 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 8509–11256

7  Interpretation
  In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
acting SES employee means a non‑SES employee who is acting in a position usually occupied by an SES employee.
Agency means:
 (a) a Department; or
 (b) an Executive Agency; or
 (c) a Statutory Agency.
Agency Head means:
 (a) the Secretary of a Department; or
 (b) the Head of an Executive Agency; or
 (c) the Head of a Statutory Agency.
Agency Minister means:
 (a) in relation to a Department—the Minister who administers the Department; or
 (b) in relation to an Executive Agency—the Minister who administers the Agency; or
 (c) in relation to a Statutory Agency—the Minister who administers the provision of the Act that provides for the appointment of the Head of the Agency.
Agency website means a website maintained by an Agency.
APS means the Australian Public Service established by section 9.
APS employee means:
 (a) a person engaged under section 22; or
 (b) a person who is engaged as an APS employee under section 72.
APS employment means employment as an APS employee.
APS Employment Principles means the principles in section 10A.
APS Values means the values in section 10.
Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard has the same meaning as in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009.
Note: See Schedules 4 and 9 of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 in relation to the application of the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard.
category of APS employee means one of the following categories:
 (a) ongoing APS employees;
 (b) APS employees engaged for a specified term or for the duration of a specified task;
 (c) APS employees engaged for duties that are irregular or intermittent.
Classification Rules means rules made under section 23.
Code of Conduct means the rules in section 13.
Commissioner means the Australian Public Service Commissioner appointed under this Act.
Commissioner's Directions means directions issued by the Commissioner under section 11, 11A or 15.
Department means a Department of State, excluding any part that is itself an Executive Agency or Statutory Agency.
enterprise agreement has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009.
Executive Agency means an Executive Agency established under section 65.
fair work instrument has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009.
former Agency Head means a person who was, but is no longer, an Agency Head.
former APS employee means a person who was, but is no longer, an APS employee.
Head:
 (a) in relation to an Executive Agency—means the person appointed as the Head of the Agency under section 67; and
 (b) in relation to a Statutory Agency—means the person declared by an Act to be the Head of