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Public Services (Management) (Amendment) Act 2017

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Public Services (Management) (Amendment) Act 2017.

No. 10 of 2017.

Certified on: 13 APR 2017

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.

Repeal and replacement of Section 45.

An Act

entitled

Public Services (Management) (Amendment) Act 2017.

Being an Act to amend the Public Services (Management) Act 2014, and for related purposes,

MADE by the National Parliament.

REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 45.

Section 45 of the Principal Act, is repealed and replaced with the following:

"45. CITIZEN TECHNICAL ADVISERS.
(1) This section applies to a citizen who is employed by an accredited aid agency to provide advisory support to the National Public Service (a citizen technical adviser).
(2) The regulations may require that a citizen technical adviser enter into a performance and conduct agreement with the relevant Departmental Head.
(3) Unless expressly provided for in his or her contract of employment with an accredited aid agency, a citizen technical adviser is not:

• (a) an officer of the Public Service; or
• (b) subject to -
  • (i) any other provisions of this Act; or
  • (ii) the General Orders of the Public Service; or
  • (iii) a code of conduct issued under Section 73(1).

(4) In this section, unless the contrary intention appears -

• "accredited aid agency" means an aid agency, contractor or other entity authorised to employ a citizen technical adviser;
• "advisory support" includes those activities of a citizen technical adviser that are intended to enhance the performance and capacity of the National Public Service.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Public Services (Management) (Amendment) Act 2017 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Acting Clerk of the National Parliament.

13 APR 2017

I hereby certify that the Public Services (Management) (Amendment) Act 2017 was made by the National Parliament on 31 January 2017.

Speaker of the National Parliament.

13 APR 2017