Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02670:body:0:p8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02670
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Character Range: 19304–22072

classification of an office in the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department, as the case may be; or
      (b) alter the designation of an office in the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department, as the case may be,
other than the office of Parliamentary Librarian, Principal Parliamentary Reporter or Secretary to the Joint House Department.
"(7) Where the classification of an office in a Department referred to in sub-section (4), (5) or (6) is altered, the office shall be deemed to be vacant and the officer who occupied the office immediately before the alteration becomes an unattached officer.
"(8) Where the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, makes or make the same alteration of the classification of all offices having the same designation and classification, the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, may, by notice published in the Gazette, direct that sub-section (7) shall not apply and, in that case, that sub-section does not apply.
"(9) Where—
     (a) the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, makes or make an alteration of the classification of an office in a case where there is no other office having the same designation and classification as that office; and
     (b) the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, declares or declare, by notice published in the Gazette, that that alteration is related to an alteration in respect of which a notice is or has been published under sub-section (8),
the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, may, in that first-mentioned notice, direct that sub-section (7) shall not apply in relation to that first-mentioned alteration and, in that case, that sub-section does not apply.

Annual report to Parliament by Presiding Officers
"9b. (1) In this section—
     (a) a reference to a Parliamentary Department shall be read as a reference to 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;
     (b) a reference to the relevant Presiding Officer or the relevant Presiding Officers, in relation to a Parliamentary Department, shall be read as a reference to—

         (i) in the case of the Department of the Senate—the President;
         (ii) in the case of the Department of the House of Representatives—the Speaker; and
         (iii) in the case of each other Parliamentary