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context, any action or approval required or authorized by this Act, the regulations or any determinations in force under section 82d to be taken or given by the Board shall or may, so far as officers and offices of the Parliament are concerned, be taken or given by the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, in substitution for the Board and any action (other than an action referred to in sub-section (2)) required or authorized by this Act, the regulations or any determination in force under section 82d to be taken by a Permanent Head or Chief Officer shall or may be taken—
           (a) in relation to officers of, and offices in, the Department of the Senate—by the Clerk of the Senate;
           (b) in relation to officers of, and offices in, the Department of the House of Representatives—by the Clerk of the House of Representatives;
           (c) in relation to officers of, and offices in, the Department of the Parliamentary Library—by the Parliamentary Librarian;
           (d) in relation to officers of, and offices in, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff—by the Principal Parliamentary Reporter; and
           (e) in relation to officers of, and offices in, the Joint House Department—by the Secretary to the Joint House Department.";
           (e) by inserting "or authorized" after "required" in paragraph (2a) (a);
     (f) by inserting "shall or" before "may" (first occurring) in paragraph (2a) (a);
     (g) by omitting from paragraph (2a) (b) "Secretary of and substituting "Secretary to";
     (h) by omitting sub-section (5);
     (j) by omitting from paragraph (8) (a) "and"; and
     (k) by inserting after paragraph (8) (a) the following paragraph:
     "(aa) a reference to offices of the Parliament shall be read as a reference to offices in 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; and".
(2) All offices that, immediately before the date of commencement of this section, were offices in 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 shall, on and after that date, continue to be offices in that Department having the same designation and classification as they had

immediately before that date as if they had been validly created under and in accordance with sub-section 9a (1), (2) or (3) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act and persons occupying those offices immediately before that date shall be entitled, on and after that date, to continue to occupy those offices as if they had been validly