7Interpretation

#### 7 Interpretation In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears: > acting SES employee means a non‑SES employee who is acting in a position usually occupied by an SES employee. > Agency means: (a) a Department; or (b) an Executive Agency; or (c) a Statutory Agency. > Agency Head means: (a) the Secretary of a Department; or (b) the Head of an Executive Agency; or (c) the Head of a Statutory Agency. > Agency Minister means: (a) in relation to a Department—the Minister who administers the Department; or (b) in relation to an Executive Agency—the Minister who administers the Agency; or (c) in relation to a Statutory Agency—the Minister who administers the provision of the Act that provides for the appointment of the Head of the Agency. > Agency website means a website maintained by an Agency. > APS means the Australian Public Service established by section 9. > APS employee means: (a) a person engaged under section 22; or (b) a person who is engaged as an APS employee under section 72. > APS employment means employment as an APS employee. > APS Employment Principles means the principles in section 10A. > APS Values means the values in section 10. > Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard has the same meaning as in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009. > Note: See Schedules 4 and 9 of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 in relation to the application of the Australian Fair Pay and Conditions Standard. > category of APS employee means one of the following categories: (a) ongoing APS employees; (b) APS employees engaged for a specified term or for the duration of a specified task; (c) APS employees engaged for duties that are irregular or intermittent. > Classification Rules means rules made under section 23. > Code of Conduct means the rules in section 13. > Commissioner means the Australian Public Service Commissioner appointed under this Act. > Commissioner’s Directions means directions issued by the Commissioner under section 11, 11A or 15. > Department means a Department of State, excluding any part that is itself an Executive Agency or Statutory Agency. > enterprise agreement has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009. > Executive Agency means an Executive Agency established under section 65. > fair work instrument has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009. > former Agency Head means a person who was, but is no longer, an Agency Head. > former APS employee means a person who was, but is no longer, an APS employee. > Head: (a) in relation to an Executive Agency—means the person appointed as the Head of the Agency under section 67; and (b) in relation to a Statutory Agency—means the person declared by an Act to be the Head of the Agency. > Head of Mission means the head of: (a) an Australian diplomatic mission; or (b) an Australian consular mission. > locally engaged employee means a person engaged under section 74. > Merit Protection Commissioner means the Merit Protection Commissioner appointed under this Act. > modern award has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009. > National Employment Standards has the same meaning as in the Fair Work Act 2009. > non‑ongoing APS employee means an APS employee who is not an ongoing APS employee. > non‑SES employee means an APS employee other than an SES employee. > ongoing APS employee means a person engaged as an ongoing APS employee, as mentioned in paragraph 22(2)(a). > overseas means outside Australia and the Territories. > Presiding Officer means the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives. > Prime Minister’s Department means the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. > Public Service Minister means the Minister who administers this Act. > Secretaries Board means the Secretaries Board established by section 64. > Secretary means the Secretary of a Department. > SES means the Senior Executive Service established by section 35. > SES employee has the meaning given by section 34. > Special Commissioner means a Special Commissioner appointed under section 48A. > special review means a review conducted by the Commissioner under subsection 41D(1). > State of the Service report means a report referred to in subsection 44(1). > Statutory Agency means a body or group of persons declared by a law of the Commonwealth to be a Statutory Agency for the purposes of this Act. > systems review means a review conducted by the Commissioner under subsection 41C(1). > WR Act collective transitional instrument means an award, a collective agreement or a pre‑reform certified agreement (within the meaning of those terms in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009). > WR Act transitional instrument means an award, a workplace agreement, a pre‑reform certified agreement, an AWA or a pre‑reform AWA (within the meaning of those terms in the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009).