139Interpretation of Part IX

139 Interpretation of Part IX (2) In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears: > Board of Inquiry means a Board of Inquiry appointed under subsection 57 (6) of the Act. > Director means the Director of the Merit Protection and Review Agency established by section 5 of the Merit Protection (Australian Government Employees) Act 1984. > Disciplinary Appeal Committee has the same meaning as in Subdivision A of Division 6 of Part III of the Act. > proceeding means: (a) in relation to a Board of Inquiry, an inquiry into a charge under subsection 57 (5) of the Act; and (b) in relation to a Disciplinary Appeal Committee, the hearing of an appeal under section 63D, 63F, 63P or 66B of the Act or the conduct of a review under section 63G of the Act; or any part of such an inquiry, hearing or review. > review means a review of a finding or of action taken referred to in section 63G of the Act, as the case requires. > Secretary, in relation to a person who: (a) has been dismissed from the Service under section 62 or 63 of the Act; (b) is deemed, under section 66A of the Act, to have retired from the Service; or (c) is an unattached officer within the meaning of Subdivision D of Division 6 of Part III of the Act; means: (d) the Secretary of the Department in which the person last held office or, where that person did not hold office, the Department in which the person last performed duties; or (e) where that Department has been abolished — a Secretary selected by the Board having regard to the duties last performed in the Service by that person; as the case requires. (3) For the purposes of the definition of salary in subsection 55 (1) of the Act salary, in relation to an officer who is suspended from duty under section 57, 59 or 63B of the Act, includes any allowance that, but for the Act, could not lawfully have been paid other than an allowance payable under any determination made under section 82D of the Act in respect of: (a) electricity; (b) medical, dental or specialist treatment; (c) accommodation on transfer of a person from one locality to another; (d) the cost of fares of children attending school away from the locality at which a person is stationed; (e) education costs of children attending school away from the locality at which a person is stationed; or (f) the sale or purchase of a home.