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46: Speaker may request Public Service Commissioner to perform certain functions under Public Service Act 2020

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"The Speaker can ask the Public Service Commissioner to help a parliamentary agency with certain tasks."

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The Speaker can ask the Public Service Commissioner to do certain jobs for a parliamentary agency. You need to know the Public Service Commissioner is a person appointed under the Public Service Act 2020. If the Commissioner agrees, they must do these jobs in a way that suits the agency. The Commissioner's jobs are listed in section 44(b) to (e) of the Public Service Act 2020. When the Commissioner does these jobs for the agency, they must treat the agency like a government department. The head of the agency is like the boss of that department. The Public Service Commissioner has to follow the rules that apply to government departments when working with the parliamentary agency. This means they must respect the agency's role and its separation from the rest of the government. The Commissioner's role is important in helping the agency work properly.

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46Speaker may request Public Service Commissioner to perform certain functions under Public Service Act 2020

  1. The Speaker may request the Public Service Commissioner to perform for a parliamentary agency the functions conferred on the Commissioner by section 44(b) to (e) of the Public Service Act 2020.

  2. If the Public Service Commissioner accepts the request, the Commissioner must perform those functions in a way that is appropriate to the role of the parliamentary agency and its separation from the executive government.

  3. For the purposes of this section, section 44(b) to (e) of the Public Service Act 2020 applies, with all necessary modifications, as if—

  4. the parliamentary agency were a department; and
    1. the head of the parliamentary agency were the chief executive of that department.

      1. In this section, Public Service Commissioner means the Public Service Commissioner appointed under section 42 of the Public Service Act 2020.