Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIME AND CORRUPTION ACT 2001 - SECT 249

249 Preservation of rights

(1) This section applies if—

(a) a person is appointed as a senior officer; and

(b) the person resigns the person’s role as a public service officer in order to accept the appointment.

(2) The person retains and is entitled to all rights that have accrued to the person because of the person’s employment as a public service officer, or that would accrue in the future to the person because of that employment, as if service as a senior officer were a continuation of service as a public service officer.

(3) At the end of the person’s term of office or on resignation—

(a) the person is entitled to be appointed to an office in the public service at a salary level not less than the current salary level of an office equivalent to the office the person held before being appointed as a senior officer; and

(b) the person’s service as a senior officer is to be regarded as service of a like nature in the public service for deciding the person’s rights as a public service officer.