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writing to be an authorising officer for the purposes of this subsection, may, by signed writing, approve officers and employees of the Organization, and other people, as people authorised to exercise, on behalf of the Organization, the authority conferred by relevant warrants.

"(2) The authority conferred by a relevant warrant may be exercised on behalf of the Organization only by the Director-General or an officer, employee or other person approved under subsection (1).

"(3) In this section:

'relevant warrant' means a warrant issued under section 25, 26, 27, 27A or 29;

'Senior Executive Service office' has the same meaning as in the Public Service Act 1922;

'senior officer of the Organization' means an officer of the Organization who holds or performs the duties of an office that is:

    (a) equivalent to a Senior Executive Service office; or

    (b) designated as an office of Manager (Senior Officer Grade A) by the Director-General under section 85.".

(2) An approval of a person that was given by the Director-General under section 24 of the Principal Act for the purposes of a warrant and was in force immediately before the commencement of this section continues in force according to its tenor as if it had been given by the Director-General under section 24 of the Principal Act as amended by this section.

Insertion of new section

7. After section 90 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Officers employed under this Part to have certain rights of entry into the Australian Public Service

"90A.(1) In this section, unless the contrary intention appears:

'ASIO officer' means a person employed under paragraph 84(1)(a);

'Department', 'office', 'Secretary' and 'Service' have the same meanings as in the Public Service Act;

'non-appellable promotion', 'promotion' and 'vacancy' have the same meanings as in Division 4 of Part III of the Public Service Act;

'Public Service Act' means the Public Service Act 1922.

"(2) If, under section 50, 50DA or 50DB of the Public Service Act, notification of a vacancy in an office in a Department is given in the Gazette, an ASIO officer may apply for appointment to the office.

"(3) If:

    (a) an ASIO officer applies under subsection (2) for appointment to an office in a Department; and

    (b) the Secretary of the Department is satisfied that the ASIO officer should be appointed to the office;

the Public Service Commissioner may appoint the ASIO officer to the office in accordance with section 42 or 43 of the Public Service Act.

"(4) Despite section 47 of the Public Service Act, the appointment of an ASIO officer to an office in a Department must not be an appointment on probation if the ASIO officer's employment as an officer of