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Government Sector Employment Act 2013
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# Schedule 1 Public Service agencies
Schedule 1 Public Service agencies
(Section 22)
Note.
Section 47A of the [Constitution Act 1902](/view/html/inforce/current/act-1902-032) precludes a statutory body or statutory officer from employing staff unless specifically authorised to do so by legislation.
Section 21 of this Act enables staff to be employed under this Act in Departments or other Public Service agencies to enable Ministers, statutory bodies or statutory officers to exercise their functions. For example, the Public Service agencies referred to in this Schedule as staff agencies comprise persons who are employed under this Act to enable the statutory body included in the name of the agency to exercise its functions.
Under section 59 of this Act, the persons employed in a Department or other Public Service agency to enable a statutory body to exercise functions may be referred to as the officers or employees, or members of staff, of the statutory body.
**sch 1:** Subst 2014 (11), cl 4 (am 2014 (58), cl 3 (1) (2)). Am 2014 (233), cl 4 (1)–(6); 2014 (413), cl 4 (1)–(7); 2014 No 64, Sch 2.5; 2014 (801), cl 7; 2015 (250), cl 4; 2015 (529), cl 4; 2015 (659), cl 4; note revised by Parliamentary Counsel; 2015 (801), cl 5; 2016 No 2, Sch 1 \[75\]; 2016 No 27, Sch 5.5; 2016 No 50, Sch 4.2; 2017 No 4, Sch 2.1; 2017 (60), cl 6 (1) (2); 2017 (79), cl 4; 2017 No 13, Sch 7.6; 2017 No 33, Sch 5.1; 2017 (299), cl 5; 2017 No 37, Sch 2.1; 2017 No 48, Sch 2.2; 2018 (276), cl 6; 2018 (310), cl 5; 2018 No 59, Sch 5.1; 2018 (624), cl 4; 2019 (308), cl 4; 2019 (159), cl 4 (am 2019 (180), Sch 1 \[1\]; 2019 (308), cl 6 (1)); 2019 No 7, Sch 1.4; 2020 (121), cl 6(1)–(3); 2020 (137), cl 5; 2020 No 18, Sch 6.5; 2020 No 30, Schs 1.20, 3.18\[2\]; 2020 (683), cl 4; 2021 (147), cl 6(1) (2); 2021 (524), cl 5; 2021 (790), Sch 4\[1\] \[2\] (am 2021 (806), cl 4; 2022 (134), cl 4(3)); 2022 (38), Sch 1.3\[1\]–\[14\]; 2022 No 8, Sch 5.3; 2022 (262), Sch 1.2; 2022 No 80, Sch 5.2; 2022 (860), Sch 2\[1\]–\[6\]; 2023 (63), Sch 3\[1\] \[2\]; 2023 (138), Sch 1; 2023 (236), Sch 3; 2023 (316), Sch 4\[1\] \[2\]; 2023 (345), Sch 2; 2023 (648), Sch 5\[1\] \[2\]; 2024 (14), Sch 3; 2024 No 34, Sch 2; 2024 (244), Sch 4\[1\]–\[8\]; 2024 (371), Sch 3; 2025 (112), Sch 4; 2025 (123), Sch 3; 2025 (650), Sch 4.