Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Directions 2025
I, Dr Gordon de Brouwer PSM, Australian Public Service Commissioner, make the following directions.
Dated 19 February 2025
Dr Gordon de Brouwer PSM
Australian Public Service Commissioner
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Directions 2022
This instrument is the Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Directions 2025.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 21 February 2025 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under subsection 11(1) of the Public Service Act 1999.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 At the end of Part 2
Add:
The APS Values in subsections 10(1) and (5) of the Act do not apply to an individual who is an APS employee if the individual:
(a) is on leave without pay from the individual’s APS employment; and
(b) was granted that leave to undertake or continue employment under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984; and
(c) is employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.
2 Paragraph 67(1)(b)
Repeal the paragraph, substitute:
(b) under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.
3 Subsection 67(2)
Omit “for the purposes mentioned in”, substitute “covered by”.
4 In the appropriate position in Part 10
Insert:
Section 17B, as added by Schedule 1 to the Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Amendment (2025 Measures No. 1) Directions 2025, applies on and after the commencement of that Schedule in relation to the following:
(a) an individual who is an APS employee, whether the individual became an APS employee before, on or after the commencement of that Schedule;
(b) an individual who is on leave without pay, whether the leave commenced before, on or after the commencement of that Schedule;
(c) an individual who is employed under the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984, whether the employment commenced before, on or after the commencement of that Schedule.