51AAAbolition of Department or changed administrative arrangements

##### 51AA Abolition of Department or changed administrative arrangements (1) Where, under subsection 29(1) or (2), an office (in this section referred to as the substituted office) is declared to be in substitution for another office (in this section referred to as the former office), the following provisions of this section have effect in relation to the filling of the vacancy in the substituted office. (2) Where the former office was, at the time when it ceased to exist, occupied by an officer, the officer is, by force of this section, transferred to the substituted office. (3) Where the former office was, at the time when it ceased to exist, a vacant office in respect of which an act had been done or a thing had occurred in relation to the filling of the vacancy, that act shall be deemed to have been done or that thing shall be deemed to have occurred in relation to the filling of the vacancy in the substituted office.