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Legislation Act 2019

Parliamentary Counsel Office - Chief Parliamentary Counsel and employees of PCO

144: Chief Parliamentary Counsel to establish procedure for notifying vacancies and appointments, and reviewing appointments

You could also call this:

"The Chief Parliamentary Counsel sets rules for telling people about job openings and checking if appointments are fair."

The Chief Parliamentary Counsel has to set up a way to do things when there are job openings or new appointments. You need to know that this procedure is for telling people about job vacancies so they can apply, except when it's not practical to do so. The Chief Parliamentary Counsel also has to tell employees of the PCO about new appointments to vacant positions, and review appointments if an employee complains about them, but only for jobs that were advertised.

The Chief Parliamentary Counsel must review appointments that were advertised and are complained about by PCO employees. This is part of the procedure for handling job vacancies and appointments. You can find more information about this by looking at the related legislation from 2012.

The procedure is in place to make sure that job openings are advertised and that appointments are reviewed fairly.

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Chief Parliamentary Counsel and employees of PCO

144Chief Parliamentary Counsel to establish procedure for notifying vacancies and appointments, and reviewing appointments

  1. The Chief Parliamentary Counsel must put in place a procedure that provides for—

  2. notifying any vacancy or prospective vacancy in a manner sufficient to enable suitably qualified people to apply for the position, except where it is impracticable to do so; and
    1. notifying PCO employees of every appointment (other than the appointment of an acting, temporary, or casual employee) to a vacant position in the PCO; and
      1. reviewing those appointments made to an advertised vacant position within the PCO that are the subject of any complaint by an employee of the PCO.

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