82BAAdministrative re‑arrangements

##### 82BA Administrative re‑arrangements (1) Where: (a) a Department is abolished; or (b) by virtue of administrative arrangements approved by the Governor‑General or the Prime Minister, or by virtue of the establishment, by an Act, of a Department of a kind referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition of Department in subsection 7(1), a matter is to be dealt with by a different Department (in this section referred to as the gaining Department) from the Department (in this section referred to as the losing Department) by which that matter was dealt with immediately before that approval or establishment, as the case may be; subsection (2) has effect. (2) The Board may direct in writing that: (a) where paragraph (1)(a) applies—a person who was employed in the abolished Department immediately before the time of the abolition is to be employed in another Department; or (b) where paragraph (1)(b) applies—a person who was employed in the losing Department immediately before the time of the approval or establishment, as the case may be, referred to in that subsection is to be employed in the gaining Department; and thereupon the person shall be deemed as from that time to be employed as so directed, in the same capacity and subject to the same conditions as were applicable immediately before that time.