Australian Universities Commission

No. 129 of 1968

An Act to make provision with respect to the Staff of the Australian Universities Commission.

[Assented to 9 December 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Australian Universities Commission Act 1968.

(2.) The Australian Universities Commission Act 1959-1967, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Australian Universities Commission Act 1959-1968.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. After section 18 of the Australian Universities Commission Act 1959-1967 the following section is added:—

Staff.

“19.—(1.) The staff of the Commission shall be employed under the Public Service Act 1922-1968.

“(2.) For the purposes of this section, the Chairman has all the powers of, or exercisable by, a Permanent Head under the Public Service Act 1922-1968 so far as those powers relate to the branch of the Public Service of the Commonwealth comprising the staff of the Commission, as if that branch were a separate Department.

“(3.) The Chairman may, by instrument in writing, and either generally or to the extent provided in the instrument, delegate to an officer employed under the Public Service Act 1922-1968 all or any of the powers and functions vested in or exercisable by the Chairman under this section (except this power of delegation).

“(4.) A power or function delegated under this section may be exercised or performed by the delegate as fully and effectually as by the Chairman.

“(5.) A delegation under this section is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Chairman.”.