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Australian Public Service Commissioner's Directions 2013

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Department of Finance
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

This item is authorised by the following title:

Public Service Act 1999

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F2014C01208

01 November 2014 - 30 June 2015

Table of contents

Chapter 1A—Preliminary
- 1A.1 Name
- 1A.2 Definitions—the Dictionary
Chapter 1—APS Values
Chapter 2—Recruitment and selection
Chapter 3—Workplace diversity
Chapter 4—Performance management
- 4.1 How an Agency Head upholds APS Employment Principle 10A(1)(d)
- 4.2 Initiating Code of Conduct proceedings in relation to performance matters
Chapter 5—Safe workplaces
- 5.1 Providing a safe workplace
Chapter 6—Agency Head handling of suspected Code of Conduct breaches
- Division 1—Preliminary
  - 6.1 Purpose of Chapter 6
  - 6.2 Application to former APS employees
- Division 2—Basic procedural requirements
Chapter 7—Other employment matters
Chapter 8—Delegation
- 8.1 Delegation by the Commissioner
- 8.2 Delegation by Agency Head
Chapter 9—Transitional provisions
- Part 9.1—Transitional provisions relating to the Australian Public Service Commissioner’s Amendment (Notification of Decisions and Other Measures) Direction 2014
Schedule 1—Re-engagement of election candidates
- 1 Entitlement to return to APS employment
Schedule 2—Comparison with Parliamentary Service classifications
- 1 Meaning of comparable classification or lower
- 2 Meaning of higher classification
Dictionary
- Endnotes