Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS ACT 1983 - SECT 27

  (1)   The staff of the Office shall be persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 .

  (2)   For the purposes of the Public Service Act 1999 :

  (a)   the Director and the APS employees assisting the Director together constitute a Statutory Agency; and

  (b)   the Director is the Head of that Statutory Agency.

  (3)   In addition to the staff referred to in subsection   ( 1), the Director may, on behalf of the Commonwealth, employ, under agreements in writing, such persons as the Director thinks necessary for the purposes of the performance of the functions of the Director.

  (4)   The terms and conditions of employment of persons employed by the Director under subsection   ( 3) are such as are from time to time determined by the Director.