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Ongoing employment – Recruitment and related issues

Appendix B: Commissioner's Directions 1999 Schedule 2

Persons who are included as APS employees for engagement

  1. A person who:
    1. immediately before the commencement of the Public Service Act 1999, was a person to whom Division 2, 3 or 4 of Part IV of the Public Service Act 1922 applied; and
    2. at the time the opportunity for employment is notified in the Gazette or in the electronic APS Employment Gazette, is performing duties in the organisation in which the person was performing duties immediately before the commencement of the Public Service Act 1999.
  2. An employee of the Australian Parliamentary Service.
  3. A staff member of the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation.
  4. An officer of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.
  5. An officer of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service.
  6. An officer of the ACT Public Service.
  7. A former officer of the APS who resigned on or after 2 August 1990, if:
    1. the resignation was for child rearing purposes and the person resigned after taking at least 12 weeks’ maternity or parental leave; and
    2. the resignation took place within 2 years of the date of birth of the child for which the period of maternity or parental leave was granted; and
    3. the opportunity for employment was notified in the Gazette or in the electronic APS Employment Gazette within 6 years from the date of birth of the child for which the maternity or parental leave was granted.
  8. A former officer of the APS who:
    1. on 1 April 1987, was on leave without pay to work in the Northern Territory Public Service (NTPS); and
    2. resigned before 1 April 1988 to continue employment in the NTPS; and
    3. has continued to be employed by the NTPS.
  9. A former officer of the APS who:
    1. accepted an offer of employment by a State Government or the Northern Territory Government; and
    2. resigned from the APS in accordance with the agreement between the Commonwealth and the Public Sector Union on staffing issues arising from the Commonwealth-State Disability Agreement; and
    3. has continued to be employed by the relevant State Government or the Northern Territory Government.
  10. A former officer of the APS who, following the transfer of Repatriation General Hospitals at Hobart, Concord, Heidelberg and Daw Park:
    1. accepted an offer of employment by the State Government of Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria or South Australia; and
    2. resigned from the APS in accordance with subsection 15 (2) and section 17 of the Repatriation Institutions (Transfer) Act 1992; and
    3. has continued to be employed by the State Government from which the offer of employment was accepted.