Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02927:body:0:p27
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02927
Segment Type: other
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Character Range: 69018–71698

the manner in which applications for appointment to the Service will be invited;
     (b) the manner of ascertaining the order in which appointments of persons who apply for appointment to specified vacancies or to vacancies included in a specified class of vacancies will be made;
     (c) the academic or other qualifications required, or the conditions to be satisfied, for appointment to the Service;
     (d) the academic or other qualifications required, or the conditions to be satisfied, for appointment, transfer or promotion to a specified office or to an office included in a specified class of offices, or for appointment as an unattached officer of the Service;
     (e) the circumstances in which notification of the existence of vacant offices in Departments will be published in the Gazette; or
     (f) such other matters with respect to appointments, transfers or promotions as the Board considers desirable.
"(2) A qualification or condition set out in a notification under paragraph (1) (c) or (d) may be a qualification or condition that is defined or expressed by reference to the opinion of the Board in relation to a particular matter.

Board may arrange for tests and examinations
"33b. The Board may, from time to time, for the purposes of this Division, arrange for the taking of tests or examinations—
     (a) by applicants for appointment to the Service, or by applicants for appointment to the Service included in a particular class of such applicants; or
     (b) by officers who wish to become eligible for promotion or transfer to particular offices, or to offices included in a particular class of offices.

Unattached officers
"33c. (1) The Board may, with the consent in writing of an officer who holds an office, declare, in writing, that the officer shall, on a day specified in the declaration, become an unattached officer and, if the Board does so, the office so held by the officer becomes vacant on the day so specified.
"(2) A person who is, or is deemed to be, an unattached officer of the Service shall, for the purposes of this Act and of any other Act, be taken to be included in such Department, or in a Department that is identified in such manner, as the Board, in writing, directs.".
(2) An appointment to the Service made before the commencement of this section under section 33 of the Principal Act is not affected by the repeal of section 33 of the Principal Act effected by sub-section (1), but, after the commencement of this section, any reference in an instrument of appointment made under sub-section 33 (1) of the Principal Act to an appointment of an officer in a Division of the Service shall be read as a reference