9Employment in Government Service — principal executive officers

9 Employment in Government Service — principal executive officers

(1) A principal executive office, other than a chief executive officer of a GBE, is prescribed for paragraph 10 (6) (ab) of the Act.

Previous service in a principal executive office

(2) For subsection 7 (2) of the Act, the previous employment of an employee in the service of an employer who employs a person holding a principal executive office (other than the chief executive officer of a GBE) must be taken into account for the purposes of section 11 of the Act as if it had been employment in Government Service.

(3) Subregulation (2) has effect only in relation to the employment of a person in the service of the employer in the following circumstances:

(a) the person was previously the holder of the principal executive office;

(b) the person is subsequently employed in a qualifying service;

(c) the person is employed in a qualifying service on or after the commencement of this regulation.

(4) In this regulation:

GBE has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Commonwealth Authorities and Companies Act 1997.