9ACreation etc. of offices in Parliamentary Departments

##### 9A Creation etc. of offices in Parliamentary Departments (1) The President may, after obtaining a report from the Clerk of the Senate: (a) create an office in the Department of the Senate; or (b) abolish an office in the Department of the Senate. (2) The Speaker may, after obtaining a report from the Clerk of the House of Representatives: (a) create an office in the Department of the House of Representatives; or (b) abolish an office in the Department of the House of Representatives. (3) The President and the Speaker may, after obtaining a report from the Parliamentary Librarian, the Principal Parliamentary Reporter or the Secretary to the Joint House Department, as the case may be: (a) create an office in the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department, as the case may be; or (b) abolish an office in the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department, as the case may be. (4) The President may, after obtaining a report from the Clerk of the Senate: (a) raise or lower the classification of an office in the Department of the Senate; or (b) alter the designation of an office in the Department of the Senate; other than the office of Clerk of the Senate. (5) The Speaker may, after obtaining a report from the Clerk of the House of Representatives: (a) raise or lower the classification of an office in the Department of the House of Representatives; or (b) alter the designation of an office in the Department of the House of Representatives; other than the office of Clerk of the House of Representatives. (6) The President and the Speaker may, after obtaining a report from the Parliamentary Librarian, the Principal Parliamentary Reporter or the Secretary to the Joint House Department, as the case may be: (a) raise or lower the classification of an office in the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department, as the case may be; or (b) alter the designation of an office in the Department of the Parliamentary Library, the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or the Joint House Department, as the case may be; other than the office of Parliamentary Librarian, Principal Parliamentary Reporter or Secretary to the Joint House Department. (7) Where the classification of an office in a Department referred to in subsection (4), (5) or (6) is altered, the office shall be deemed to be vacant and the officer who occupied the office immediately before the alteration becomes an unattached officer. (8) Where the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, makes or make the same alteration of the classification of all offices having the same designation and classification, the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, may, by notice published in the Gazette, direct that subsection (7) shall not apply and, in that case, that subsection does not apply. (9) Where: (a) the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, makes or make an alteration of the classification of an office in a case where there is no other office having the same designation and classification as that office; and (b) the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, declares or declare, by notice published in the Gazette, that that alteration is related to an alteration in respect of which a notice is or has been published under subsection (8); the President or the Speaker, or the President and the Speaker, as the case may be, may, in that first‑mentioned notice, direct that subsection (7) shall not apply in relation to that first‑mentioned alteration and, in that case, that subsection does not apply.