87URights of officers to whom repealed Officers’ Rights Declaration Act applies

##### 87U Rights of officers to whom [Repealed] Officers’ Rights Declaration Act applies (1) This section applies to an officer engaged in eligible public employment to whom the repealed Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928 applies by virtue of section 87TA. (2) An officer to whom this section applies: (a) may elect, by notice in writing delivered to the Board, that the provisions of the repealed Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928, shall cease to apply to him; or (b) may appeal under section 50B of this Act against the promotion of another person to fill a vacant office in the Service. (3) Where an officer who appeals under subsection (2) against the promotion of another person to fill a vacant office in the Service becomes, under subsection 87C(1), an officer to whom Division 2 applies in consequence of his so appealing, that Division applies to and in relation to him in respect of the appeal as if he had appealed against that promotion immediately after he became an officer to whom that Division applies. (4) Where an officer who appeals under subsection (2) against the promotion of another person to fill a vacant office in the Service ceases, under subsection 87V(1), to be an officer in consequence of his so appealing and becomes, under subsection 87K(2), a person to whom Division 3 applies, that Division applies to and in relation to him in respect of the appeal as if he had appealed against that promotion immediately after that Division commenced to apply to him.