Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03205:schedule:2:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A03205
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 2 (pt 2/18)
Character Range: 7134–9876

not apply in respect of those staff until that instrument is revoked by the Minister.".

Industrial democracy plans
9. Section 22c of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following sub-sections:
"(15) Regulations made for the purposes of sub-section (13) in relation to persons referred to in paragraph (13) (c) or (d) have effect notwithstanding sub-section 42c (1) of the Naval Defence Act 1910 or sub-section 10 (2) of the Supply and Development Act 1939, as the case may be.
"(16) Where the Minister for Defence, by instrument in writing, declares that, by reason of defence or civil emergency, it is necessary for staff employed under the Naval Defence Act 1910 or the Supply and Development Act 1939 to be engaged in work in circumstances such that regulations made for the purposes of sub-section (13) should not apply in respect of those staff, those regulations shall not apply in respect of those staff until that instrument is revoked by the Minister.".

Secretaries of Departments
10. Section 25 of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting from sub-section (1) "upon the notification of the fact in the Gazette";
    (b) by inserting after sub-section (1) the following sub-section:
    "(1a) As soon as practicable after the occurrence of an event referred to in the proviso to sub-section (1), the Prime Minister shall cause a notice of the event to be published in the Gazette, specifying the date on which the event occurred."; and
    (c) by adding at the end the following sub-sections:
    "(6) The Secretary of a Department shall, as soon as practicable after 30 June in each year, prepare and furnish to the Minister administering the Department a report on the operation of the Department during the year, that ended on that 30 June.
    "(7) A report prepared under sub-section (6) shall be in accordance with guidelines from time to time approved by the Prime Minister and presented to the Parliament.
    "(8) The Minister administering a Department shall cause a copy of a report furnished to him under sub-section (6) to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the day on which the Minister receives the report.
    "(9) In sub-clause (6), 'Department' means a Department referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of 'Department' in sub-section 7 (1).".

Administrative re-arrangements
11. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended—
    (a) by omitting from sub-section (2) all the words before paragraph (a) and substituting the following:
    "Where, by virtue of administrative arrangements approved by the Governor-General or the Prime Minister, or by virtue of the establishment, by an Act, of a Department of a kind referred to in