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classification that is an approved classification under sub-section 28 (1).
"(2) The Board may, by notice in writing to the Secretary of a Department, direct the Secretary to alter the classification of an office in a Department or the classification of offices in the Department, being offices included in a class of offices specified in the notice, to the classification specified in the notice, being a classification that is an approved classification under sub-section 28 (1).
"(3) Subject to sub-section (4), where—
     (a) the classification of an office is altered; and
     (b) the rate of salary, or the maximum rate of salary, payable in respect of the office immediately after the alteration is different from the rate of salary, or the maximum rate of salary, payable in respect of the office immediately before the alteration,
the office becomes vacant and the officer who held the office immediately before the alteration becomes an unattached officer.
"(4) The Board may, in writing, direct that sub-section (3) shall not apply to or in relation to alterations of the classification of offices included in a specified class of alterations of the classification of offices.".
(2) Notwithstanding the repeal of section 29 of the Principal Act by sub-section (1), an office created in a Department under sub-section 29 (1) of that Act and in existence immediately before the date of commencement of this section continues in existence on and after that date as if it had been created by the relevant Secretary under sub-section 27 (1) of the Public Service Act 1922 as amended by sub-section (1).

Classification of offices and officers
18. Section 28 of the Principal Act is amended—
     (a) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
        "(1a) The Board may, in writing—
        (a) declare a classification to be a Senior Executive Service classification; or
        (b) declare all classifications included in a specified class of classifications to be Senior Executive Service classifications."; and
     (b) by omitting from sub-section (4) "An" and substituting "subject to sub-section 76f (1a), an".

19. After Division 2a of Part III of the Principal Act the following Division is inserted:

"Division 2b—Part-time Offices

Part-time offices
"29b. (1) An office in a Department (other than an office of Secretary) may be declared by the relevant Secretary, in writing, to be a part-time office.
"(2) Where—
     (a) a declaration is made under sub-section (1) in relation to an office; or
     (b) a declaration under sub-section (1) in relation to an office is revoked, the office becomes vacant and the officer who held the office immediately before the declaration was made or revoked, as the case may be, becomes an unattached officer.
"(3) Where—
     (a) an office (in this sub-section referred