115GMultiple promotions

115G Multiple promotions

group of multiple promotions means a group of promotions comprising:

(a) a promotion, of an officer to an office, that is notified in the Gazette; and

(b) one or more other promotions of the officer notified in the Gazette on the day the promotion referred to in paragraph (a) is so notified or on any succeeding day no later than the day immediately preceding the nominal effective day of that promotion, being a promotion or promotions to an office or to offices the classification or the respective classifications of which are the same as or equivalent to the classification of the office referred to in paragraph (a).

relevant day, in relation to a group of multiple promotions, means:

(a) if the nominal effective day of each of those promotions is the same — that day; or

(b) in any other case — the nominal effective day that is the later or latest, as the case may be, of the respective nominal effective days of each of those promotions.

(2) Where an officer is promoted to 2 or more offices and those promotions comprise a group of multiple promotions:

(a) none of those promotions takes effect except in accordance with subregulation (13); and

(b) the officer may, by writing, elect to accept one of those promotions.

(3) An election under subregulation (2) relating to a promotion to an office in a Department shall be addressed to the Secretary of that Department.

(4) Where, in relation to one of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2), an election under that subregulation is received by the Secretary to whom it is addressed before the relevant day and immediately before the relevant day that promotion was not an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal, that promotion is the effective promotion.

(5) Where, in relation to one of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2), an election under that subregulation is received by the Secretary to whom it is addressed before the relevant day and immediately before the relevant day that promotion was an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal, the other promotion or promotions referred to in subregulation (2) lapse on the relevant day.

(6) Where no election is made or, if made, is not received by the Secretary before the relevant day in relation to the promotions referred to in subregulation (2), subregulation (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) or (12) applies to those promotions.

(7) Where, immediately before the relevant day referred to in subregulation (6), none of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2) was an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal and one such promotion was notified earlier than the other promotions, that promotion is the effective promotion.