76TPower to reduce officer’s classification

##### 76T Power to reduce officer’s classification (1) The power conferred by this Division on a Secretary to reduce an officer’s classification is a power: (a) in the case of a person who holds an office, or is included, in the Secretary’s Department—to assign the person to an office of a lower classification in the Department; or (b) in the case of a continuing employee employed in a particular capacity in the Secretary’s Department—to employ the employee in a lower capacity in the Department. (2) The power conferred by this Division on the Board to reduce an officer’s classification is a power: (a) in the case of a person who holds an office, or is included, in a Department: (i) to assign the person to an office of a lower classification in that or another Department; or (ii) to declare the person to be an unattached officer of a lower classification or, being an unattached officer, to have a lower classification and, in either case, to direct that the person is included in that or another Department; or (b) in the case of a continuing employee employed in a particular capacity in a Department—to direct that the employee be employed in a lower capacity in that or another Department.