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Public Sector Employment and Management Act 1993
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50 Summary dismissal
(1) Despite anything in this or any other Act or the rules known as the
rules of natural justice (including any duty of procedural fairness),
where a Chief Executive Officer is of the opinion that the action or
omission constituting a breach of discipline amounts to misconduct
of such a nature that it is in the public interest that the employee be
immediately dismissed from the Public Sector, the Chief Executive
Officer may terminate the employee's employment.
(2) As soon as practicable after making a decision under
subsection (1), the Chief Executive Officer must give written notice
(3) The notice must:
(b) inform the employee of the employee's right to appeal under
section 59A.
(4) A decision under subsection (1) takes effect on the day the notice is
given to the employee or a later day specified in the notice.