87QRe‑appointment to Service

##### 87Q Re‑appointment to Service (1) Where a Re‑appointment Review Committee determines, under subsection 87N(7), that an applicant is eligible for re‑appointment to the Service, the Board shall, as soon as practicable after it receives a copy of the determination, furnish a copy of the determination to the applicant together with a notice, in writing, informing the applicant that he is eligible for re‑appointment to the Service in a specified Department as an unattached officer with the classification specified in the determination. (2) A notice given by the Board under subsection (1) shall specify: (a) the place at which the applicant should report for duty; and (b) the nature of the duties on which he will be engaged upon commencing to perform duty in the Service. (3) Where a person who has made an application under subsection 87N(1): (a) has received a notice under subsection (1) of this section; and (b) attains the age of 65 years while engaged in the eligible public employment in respect of which a prescribed condition of re‑appointment is specified in the application as having been fulfilled; this section ceases to apply to and in relation to him upon his attaining that age. (4) Subject to subsection (3), where, within the period of 21 days, or within such further period as the Board allows, after a person receives a notice under subsection (1), the person: (a) if he has not attained the age of 65 years—reports for duty at the place specified in the notice; or (b) if he has attained, or will, within that period or further period, attain, the age of 65 years—notifies the Board, in writing, that he wishes to be re‑appointed to the Service in accordance with the notice; the person shall be deemed: (c) to have been re‑appointed to the Service under this section on the day (in this subsection referred to as the day of re‑appointment) immediately following the day on which his employment by the relevant public authority or as the holder of the relevant public office, as the case may be, was terminated or ceased; (d) to have been so re‑appointed as an unattached officer with the classification specified in the notice; and (e) to have been absent from the Service on leave of absence without pay during the period (if any) from and including the day of re‑appointment to and including the day immediately preceding the day on which he reports for duty in the Service, or attains the age of 65 years, as the case may be. (5) A person who has made an application under subsection 87N(1) and is deemed to have been re‑appointed to the Service under this section shall be deemed to have been so re‑appointed without probation unless the Re‑appointment Review Committee that inquired into his application has determined that the applicant should be re‑appointed on probation. (6) Where a person is, under subsection (4), to be deemed to have been re‑appointed to the Service on an application made under section 87N on the ground that a prescribed condition of re‑appointment, other than the condition referred to in paragraph 87N(2)(d), had been fulfilled in relation to him, the period during which he is, by virtue of that subsection, to be deemed to have been absent from the Service on leave of absence without pay shall form part of his period of service under this Act for all purposes of this Act and the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976. (7) A person who receives a notice under subsection (1) ceases to be entitled to be re‑appointed to the Service under this section if he does not report for duty or notify the Board in accordance with subsection (4).