Commonwealth Numbered Acts

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974 No. 51, 1974 - SECT 27

27. (1) The staff necessary to assist the Commission shall be persons
appointed or employed under the Public Service Act 1922-1973.

(2) The Chairman of the Commission has all the powers of, or exercisable by, a
Permanent Head under the Public Service Act 1922-1973 so far as those powers
relate to the branch of the Australian Public Service comprising the staff
referred to in sub-section (1) as if that branch were a separate Department of
the Australian Public Service.

(3) For the purposes of sub-sections 25 (5) and (6) of the Public Service Act
1922-1973, the Chairman shall be deemed to be a Permanent Head.