Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02670:body:0:p28
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02670
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 68261–70930

an officer under sub-section (3) does not take effect on the making of the promotion but, if—
     (a) no appeal is made under section 50b against the promotion; or
     (b) an appeal is, or appeals are, made under section 50b against the promotion, but the appeal, or each of the appeals, is disallowed or becomes inoperative,
the promotion takes effect on a day ascertained in accordance with section 50e.

Selection of officers for promotion
"50a. (1) In the selection of an officer for promotion to a vacancy, consideration shall be given only to the relative efficiency of the officers available for promotion to the vacancy.
"(2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), 'efficiency', in relation to an officer, means the suitability of the officer for the discharge of duties of the kind

to be performed in the vacant office concerned, having regard to the following matters:
     (a) the capability of the officer to discharge those duties;
     (b) the standard of the work performed by the officer in other offices;
     (c) any experience possessed by the officer relevant to the discharge of those duties;
     (d) the training and educational qualifications of the officer;
     (e) any personal qualities of the officer relevant to the discharge of those duties,
and, in the case of an officer who is a returned soldier or who is or has been absent on specified defence service, includes such efficiency as, in the opinion of the relevant Permanent Head, a Committee or the Board, as the case requires, the officer would have had but for the absence of the officer on active service or on specified defence service.
"(3) The Board may, by notice published in the Gazette, declare that, in assessing the efficiency of officers for promotion to offices included in a specified class of offices, greater weight may be given to one or more of the matters referred to in paragraphs (2) (a) to (e) (inclusive), being a matter or matters specified in the declaration, than to the other matter or matters referred to in those paragraphs.

Appeals
"50b. (1) An officer who considers that he is more entitled than another officer to promotion to the vacant office to which the other officer has been promoted under section 50 may appeal against the promotion of the other officer to that office.
"(2) The only ground of appeal under sub-section (1) shall be the greater efficiency of the officer making the appeal.
"(3) An appeal under sub-section (1) shall be made in such manner, and within such period after the notification of the promotion in the Gazette, as is prescribed.
"(4) The Board may, where it considers it appropriate to do so, extend the period of time