5Definitions

5 Definitions

Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:

(a) Agency;
(b) Agency Head;
(c) APS employee;
(d) APS Employment Principles;
(e) APS Values;
(f) Classification Rules;
(g) Code of Conduct;
(h) non‑ongoing APS employee;
(i) ongoing APS employee;
(j) SES employee.

In this instrument:

Aboriginal person means a person of the Aboriginal race of Australia.

Act means the Public Service Act 1999.

broadband has the same meaning as in subrule 9(4) of the Classification Rules.

classification means an approved classification within the meaning of the Classification Rules.

classification group has the same meaning as in the Classification Rules, as in force from time to time.

disability employment service provider means an organisation that facilitates access to employment for persons with disability.

eligible employee: see subsection 25(9).

employee choice notification: see subsection 25A(1).

employment arrangement means any of the following:

(a) a fair work instrument (within the meaning of the Fair Work Act 2009);
(b) a transitional instrument (within the meaning of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009);
(c) a determination under subsection 24(1) or (3) of the Act;
(d) a written contract of employment.

group A decision means a decision to:

(a) promote an ongoing APS employee; or
(b) engage an ongoing Parliamentary Service employee as an ongoing APS employee at a classification that is higher than the employee’s Parliamentary Service classification.

group B decision means a decision to engage a person from a merit pool, a ranked merit pool or a ranked merit list if:

(a) the engagement of the person is stayed because of the operation of paragraph 21(3)(b) of the Regulations; and
(b) the decision is not a group A decision.

Independent Selection Advisory Committee has the same meaning as in the Regulations.

intelligence agency means an organisation continued in existence by: