8Transfer of personnel files

8 Transfer of personnel files

(1) This section applies where before the commencement of the Public Service Act 1999: (a) a person ceases to be an officer of the Australian Public Service and becomes an ACT officer; or (b) a person ceases to be an ACT officer and becomes an officer of the Australian Public Service. (2) In a case referred to in paragraph (1)(a), the relevant Secretary or Agency Head (within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999) may deliver to the appropriate authority of the Australian Capital Territory all records kept by the Secretary or Agency Head in relation to the person and reasonably necessary to be so delivered in connection with the employment of the person as an ACT officer. (3) In a case referred to in paragraph (1)(b), records kept, in relation to the person, for the purposes of the Australian Capital Territory Government Service may be delivered to the relevant Secretary or Agency Head (within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1999) if it is reasonably necessary for the records to be so delivered in connection with the employment of the person as an officer of the Australian Public Service. (4) Personal information contained in records delivered to an authority under subsection (2) may be used as if the information had been collected by the authority for the purposes of the Australian Capital Territory Government Service. (5) Personal information contained in records delivered to a Secretary or Agency Head under subsection (3) may be used as if the information had been collected by the Secretary for the purposes of the Australian Public Service.