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(a) as a member of a unit of the Defence Force that was allotted for duty within the meaning of subsection 5B(2) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth; or
(b) as a person who was allotted for duty within the meaning of subsection 5B(2) of the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth;
in an operational area described in item 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 or 14 in Schedule 2 to the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 of the Commonwealth during the period specified in that item;
'specified defence service' has the same meaning as in subsection 70(12).".
Amendment No. 89 has arisen as a result of negotiations with the Director of Public Prosecutions. The purpose of the amendment is to provide that the management standards made with respect to matters in paragraph 251(2)(j) take effect subject to any direction issued by the DPP under section 12 of the DPP Act 1993. Amendment No. 90 proposes to omit subclause 251(4) and insert instead new subclauses 251(4) and (5). To ensure that the conditions for returned soldiers are the same as apply under the Commonwealth Public Service Act, a provision is to be included so that the public sector management standards may provide for the special conditions that are applicable to returned soldiers, including preference in relation to appointments or promotions. I commend those two amendments to the Assembly.
Amendments agreed to.
Clauses, as amended, agreed to.
Postponed clause 253
MR MOORE (6.03): I move:
Page 186, line 27, subclause (5), omit "not".
It is appropriate that management standards be able to be scrutinised by the Assembly. I would imagine that in the vast majority of cases they will not be scrutinised by the Assembly; but, if there is a change to those standards that is of concern to members of the public, they should have the opportunity of drawing that to the attention of members of the Assembly. It may well be that members of the Assembly wish to keep an eye on the management standards as part of this Bill. In that case, we ought to have the opportunity to use the Subordinate Laws Act either to disallow or to amend any section of the management standards; in other words, to use the Subordinate Laws Act in the way it ought to be used to keep an overview, to keep a watching brief, on what is happening within the Government Service and within things that we facilitate under such an Act.
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