18Eligible employees transferred outside the Australian Public Service

#### 18 Eligible employees transferred outside the Australian Public Service (1) Where, in pursuance of arrangements made under section 47DA of the Public Service Act 1922 as modified and adapted by the Papua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations, an eligible employee has, whether before or after the commencing day, been transferred for a specified period to an office in the Public Service of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, the annual rate of salary of that eligible employee on a particular day (not being a day before the commencing day) during the specified period shall, for the purposes of the Act, be an amount per annum equal to the annual rate of salary (in this regulation referred to as the eligible employee’s notional salary) that would be payable to the eligible employee on that day in respect of the duties that the eligible employee would be likely to perform as an officer of the Australian Public Service on that day if the eligible employee had not been transferred to that office. (2) Where the duties that an eligible employee would, but for the transfer referred to in subregulation (1), be likely to perform as an officer of the Australian Public Service on a particular day are not the duties last so performed by the eligible employee before that transfer, the notional salary of the eligible employee on the particular day shall not, for the purposes of subregulation (1), include any allowance, or the value of any allowance, that, but for this subregulation, would be included in his notional salary.