73ASavings and transitional provisions consequent on Tasmanian Qualifications Authority Amendment Act 2015

73A Savings and transitional provisions consequent on Tasmanian Qualifications Authority Amendment Act 2015

[Section 73A Inserted by No. 59 of 2007, s. 34, Applied:01 Jan 2008] [Section 73A Substituted by No. 15 of 2015, s. 125, Applied:29 May 2015]

(1)  In this section –

commencement day means the day on which the Tasmanian Qualifications Authority Amendment Act 2015 commences;

previous Act means this Act as in force immediately before the commencement day.

(2)  If a person, immediately before the commencement day, held the office of chief executive officer of the Authority, within the meaning of the previous Act, under an appointment made under section 16 of the previous Act –

(a) that person is taken to have been appointed under the State Service Act 2000 as the Director of Education and Training Research within the Department for the term, and on the conditions, specified in his or her instrument of appointment as such chief executive officer; and

(b) a reference in that instrument of appointment to the office or position of chief executive officer of the Tasmanian Qualifications Authority is taken to be a reference to the office of Director of Education and Training Research in the Department.

(3)  Persons appointed under section 18 of the previous Act who held that appointment immediately before the commencement day are taken to have been appointed subject to and in accordance with the State Service Act 2000 for the purposes of the Department.

(4)  The State Service officer or State Service employee –

(a) employed in the Department; and

(b) who, immediately before the commencement day and in compliance with the direction of the Premier under section 21A of the Acts Interpretation Act 1931 , is performing and exercising the duties, obligations, rights and powers of the office of Director of Equity Services –