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Public Service Act 1999
14Agency Heads and statutory office holders bound by Code of Conduct
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#### 14 Agency Heads and statutory office holders bound by Code of Conduct
(1) Agency Heads are bound by the Code of Conduct in the same way as APS employees.
(2) Statutory office holders are bound by the Code of Conduct, subject to any regulations made under subsection (2A).
(2A) The regulations may make provision in relation to the extent to which statutory office holders are bound by the Code of Conduct.
> Note: The regulations may make different provision with respect to different statutory office holders or different classes of statutory office holders (see subsection 33(3A) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901).
(3) In this section:
> statutory office holder means a person who holds any office or appointment under an Act, being an office or appointment that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.