Parliamentary Service Act 1988
sec.32Vacancies to be advertised
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sec.32 Vacancies to be advertised
A person shall not be appointed to fill a vacancy in an office within the parliamentary service unless the vacancy has been notified in the gazette. Subsection (1) does not apply if the office in which the vacancy exists— is of a temporary nature; or is an office of a class of office prescribed by rules made by the Speaker to be a class of office in respect of which a vacancy need not be advertised. The reclassification of an office creates a vacancy in that office for the purposes of subsection (1) . s 32 amd 1995 No. 38 s 35 sch 1 ; 2011 No. 24 s 60 ; 2015 No. 3 s 15 (sec.32-ssec.1) A person shall not be appointed to fill a vacancy in an office within the parliamentary service unless the vacancy has been notified in the gazette. (sec.32-ssec.2) Subsection (1) does not apply if the office in which the vacancy exists— is of a temporary nature; or is an office of a class of office prescribed by rules made by the Speaker to be a class of office in respect of which a vacancy need not be advertised. (sec.32-ssec.3) The reclassification of an office creates a vacancy in that office for the purposes of subsection (1) .
- (a) is of a temporary nature; or
- (b) is an office of a class of office prescribed by rules made by the Speaker to be a class of office in respect of which a vacancy need not be advertised.