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Schedule 4

22.(1) Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting from subclause 2(3) "Registrar" and substituting "designated Presidential Member".

(2) Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subclause 7(3) the following subclause:

"(3A) If the rules of the organisation do not comply, subject to subclause 2(3), with Part 2 in respect of each branch for which the organisation proposes to seek non-corporate registration under a prescribed State Act, the proposed alterations must include such alterations as are necessary for the rules so to comply.".

  (3) Schedule 4 to the Principal Act is amended by omitting Part 4.

PART 4—AMENDMENTS OF THE MATERNITY LEAVE (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) ACT 1973

Principal Act

23. In this Part, "Principal Act" means the Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 19733.

Interpretation

24. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (1) the following definitions:

" 'Department of the Australian Public Service' has the same meaning as the expression 'Department' in the Public Service Act 1922;

'Secretary' has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1922.".

Insertion of new section

  25. After section 5 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

How Act applies to persons employed in Parliamentary Departments

  "5A.(1) In this section:

'Head', in relation to a Parliamentary Department, means:

     (i) if the Department is the Department of the Senate—the Clerk of the Senate; or

     (ii) if the Department is the Department of the House of Representatives—the Clerk of that House; or

     (iii) if the Department is the Department of the Parliamentary Library—the Parliamentary Librarian; or

     (iv) if the Department is the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff—the Principal Parliamentary Reporter; or

     (v) if the Department is the Joint House Department—the Secretary to that Department;

'Parliamentary Department' means the Department of the Senate, the Department of the House of Representatives, the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department.

"(2) For the purposes of the application of this Act in relation to a person employed in a Parliamentary Department:

    (a) the powers conferred by section 8 on the Public Service Commissioner are to be exercised, in substitution for the Public Service Commissioner, by:

        (i) if the person is employed in the Department of the Senate—the President of the Senate; or

        (ii) if the person is employed in the Department of the House of Representatives—the Speaker of that House; or

        (iii) if the person is employed in another Parliamentary Department—the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives acting jointly; and

    (b) the powers conferred on the Secretary to the Department (other than the power of delegation conferred by