17Employment Directions

17 Employment Directions

[Section 17 Substituted by No. 42 of 2012, s. 6, Applied:04 Feb 2013]

(1)  The Employer may issue Employment Directions which relate to the administration of the State Service and employment matters relevant to this Act and which have effect according to their tenor unless they are inconsistent with or repugnant to other provisions of this Act.

(2)  Employment Directions may be issued under this section –

(a) so as to apply –

(i) to employees generally or to a specified class or classes of employees; and

(ii) to officers generally or to a specified class or classes of officers; and

(iii) generally or in a particular case or class of cases or in particular cases or classes of cases; and

(iv) at all times or at a specified time or at specified times; and

(v) throughout the State or in a specified part or specified parts of the State; and

(vi) throughout the State Service or in a specified Agency or Agencies; and

(b) so as to require a matter affected by them to be –

(i) in accordance with a specified standard or specified requirement; or

(ii) as approved by, or to the satisfaction of, a specified person or body or a specified class of persons or bodies; and

(c) so as to confer on a specified person or body or a specified class of persons or bodies a discretionary authority; and

(d) so as to provide that, in a specified case or a specified class of cases, whether on specified conditions or unconditionally, persons or things of a class, or classes of persons or things, may be exempted from the Employment Directions, either wholly or to such extent as is specified; and

(e) so as to –

(i) revoke any Ministerial Directions or Commissioner's Directions in force under this Act immediately before the commencement of the ; or