Bill
Public Service Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2024
passed, as at 2024-08-26. Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Prime Minister and Cabinet
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-08-14
- second reading — 2024-08-14
- second reading — 2024-08-20
- second reading — 2024-08-20
- third reading — 2024-08-20
- introduced — 2024-08-21
- second reading — 2024-08-21
- second reading — 2024-08-22
- third reading — 2024-08-22
- passed — 2024-08-22
- royal assent — 2024-08-26
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-08-14.
The bill would make clear that the Australian Public Service Commissioner can investigate and decide on code-of-conduct breaches by current and former agency heads.
It would give the Commissioner the same powers to hold agency heads accountable as already exist for other public servants.
The changes would apply to reviews started after 7 July 2023, including those related to the Robodebt Scheme.
- Clarify the Commissioner's power to inquire into and determine code-of-conduct breaches by former agency heads.
- Validate reviews of former agency heads' conduct that began after 7 July 2023.
- Allow information and documents gathered in those reviews before the bill starts to continue being used.
Current and former agency heads of the Australian Public Service.
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