Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 444M

444M Staff services from government agency

(1) The rehabilitation commissioner may, with the agreement of the chief executive of a government agency, arrange for the services of officers or employees of the agency to be made available to the rehabilitation commissioner.

(2) An officer or employee whose services are made available under subsection (1) —

(a) continues to be an officer or employee of the government agency; and

(b) continues to be employed or otherwise engaged by the government agency on the same terms and conditions applying to the officer or employee immediately before the services were made available; and

(c) is subject to the direction of the rehabilitation commissioner only in relation to the services made available to the rehabilitation commissioner and for the performance of the rehabilitation commissioner’s functions; and

(d) is not subject to the direction of the chief executive of the government agency in relation to the services made available to the rehabilitation commissioner and for the performance of the rehabilitation commissioner’s functions.

(3) Nothing in subsection (1) requires the chief executive of a government agency to enter into an arrangement mentioned in that subsection.

(4) In this section—

"government agency" means—

(a) a department or an administrative unit within a department; or

(b) a government owned corporation or a subsidiary of a government owned corporation; or

(c) an entity that is established under an Act and represents the State; or

(d) a local government.