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statement of those reasons to the Board.
"(9) The Board may from time to time, by notice in writing to Secretaries, issue guidelines on the development, implementation and review of industrial democracy plans for Departments.

"(10) The Board shall, in a report furnished to the Prime Minister in accordance with section 22, report on the operation of this section.
"(11) Where a Department comes into existence after the commencement of this section, this section applies in relation to the Department as if a reference in sub-section (2) to the commencment of this section were a reference to the day on which the Department comes into existence.
"(12) The regulations may provide that this section shall apply to and in relation to a Commonwealth authority specified in the regulations and, where the regulations so provide, this section applies to and in relation to the Commonwealth authority as if—
     (a) the Commonwealth authority were a Department;
     (b) references to the Secretary of a Department were references to the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, the office specified in the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph;
     (c) a reference in sub-section (2) to the commencement of this section were a reference to the day on which the regulations came into force; and
     (d) if the regulations provide that a specified Minister is the prescribed authority for the purposes of the application of this section in relation to the Commonwealth authority—references in sub-sections (2), (3), (5), (7) and (8) to the Board were references to the Minister so specified.
"(13) The regulations may provide that the provisions of this section shall, subject to such modifications and adaptations (if any) as are prescribed by the regulations, apply to and in relation to the employment of—
     (a) members of the Australian Federal Police;
     (b) persons appointed as officers or engaged as employees under the Commonwealth Teaching Service Act 1972;
     (c) persons who hold offices or appointments (not being offices or appointments in the Defence Force) under regulations made under the Naval Defence Act 1910;
     (d) persons who are employed under section 10 of the Supply and Development Act 1939;
     (e) persons employed as officers of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization; or
     (f) officers appointed in pursuance of section 10 of the Trade Commissioners Act 1933.
"(14) In sub-section (13), 'modifications' includes the addition or omission of a provision or the substitution of a provision for another provision.".
(2) If this section comes into operation during the first 6 months of a financial year, the Board shall report on the operation of section 22c of the Public Service Act 1922, in relation to the period commencing on the day on which