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106 Training offices
(1) The head of service may prescribe—
(a) required training for a class of office (a training office); and
(b) a class of office with a higher classification to which an officer
occupying a training office may be promoted on satisfactory
completion of the required training (a related qualified office).
(2) If the head of service is satisfied an officer has satisfactorily
completed the required training for a training office—
(a) if there is a vacant related qualified office—the head of service
must promote the officer to the office; or
(b) if there is no vacant related qualified office—the officer—
(i) becomes an unattached officer until a related qualified
office becomes vacant; and
(ii) is taken to have the classification of the related qualified
office.
(3) If a related qualified office becomes vacant, the head of service—
(a) must transfer to the office the unattached officer who has been
waiting for a related qualified office to become vacant for the
longest period; or
(b) may, if no officers have completed the required training—
(i) for a full-time qualified office—promote to the office the
first full-time officer to complete the training; or
(ii) for a part-time qualified office—promote to the office the
first part-time officer to complete the training; or
(iii) if subparagraphs (i) and (ii) do not apply—appoint, transfer
or promote another person to the office.
(4) If 2 or more officers satisfactorily completed the required training for
a training office on the same day, the officers are taken to have
completed the training in order of merit, with the officer achieving
the highest mark taken to have completed first.
(5) A promotion under this section takes effect on the day the promotion
is made.
Other movement within the service Division 5.7