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the appointment by writing signed by the person and delivered to the Governor-General.
"(6) While a person is acting as Official Secretary, the person has and may exercise all the powers and shall perform all the functions of the Official Secretary under this Act.
"(7) The validity of anything done by a person purporting to act pursuant to an appointment made under sub-section (1) shall not be called in question on the ground that the occasion for the person's appointment had not arisen, that there is a defect or irregularity in or in connection with the appointment, that the appointment had ceased to have effect or that the occasion for the person to act had not arisen or had ceased.

Official Secretary may employ staff
"13. The Official Secretary may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, employ, under an agreement in writing, a person as a member of the Governor-General's staff.

Terms and conditions of employment
"14. (1) Subject to sub-section (2) and to any applicable determination made under sub-section (3), the terms and conditions of employment of a person employed by the Official Secretary under section 13, other than terms and conditions in relation to which provision is made by section 15, are the same as the terms and conditions applicable in relation to an officer performing the duties of an office in the Australian Public Service having a classification specified in the agreement for the employment of the person.
"(2) Notwithstanding anything in sub-section (1) or in the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979, that Act does not apply in relation to the employment of a person under section 13.
"(3) The Official Secretary may, with the approval of the Public Service Board, by writing determine that the terms and conditions of the employment of a person under section 13, being the terms and conditions ascertained in accordance with sub-section (1) of this section, are varied as specified in the determination.
"(4) A determination under sub-section (3) may be expressed to apply in relation to all persons employed under section 13, in relation to all persons included in a class of persons so employed or in relation to a specified person so employed.

Termination of employment
"15. (1) The Official Secretary may at any time, by notice in writing given to a person employed under section 13, terminate the person's employment.

"(2) A person employed by the Official Secretary under section 13 may at any time, by notice in writing given to the Official Secretary, terminate the person's employment.

Rights of officers employed by Official Secretary
"16. (1) For the purposes of the Public Service Act 1922, an officer who is employed under section 13 shall, while the