220208-NI-TSY_47_0234-ABS standing acting arrangements.master

This instrument is the Australian Bureau of Statistics (Standing Acting Arrangements) Appointment 2023.

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions

Note: Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 has the effect that expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975 as in force from time to time.

In this instrument:

senior available appointee has the meaning given by subsection 6(2).

the Act means the Australian Bureau of Statistics Act 1975.

Part 2—Standing acting arrangements for the Australian Statistician

6 Standing acting arrangements for the Australian Statistician

(1) Under section 15 of the Act, during all periods when there is vacancy in the office of the Statistician, or the Statistician is absent from duty or from Australia, or is, for any reason, unable to perform the duties of the office, the person determined in accordance with subsections (2) to (5) is appointed to act as Statistician.

(2) For the purposes of this instrument, a senior available appointee at a particular time is a person who, at that time, satisfies all of the following:

(a) is engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 by the Statistician for the purposes of the Bureau;

(b) is not absent from duty or from Australia;

(d) is one of the following persons:

(i) Jenet Connell;

(ii) Teresa Dickinson;

(iii) Brenton Goldsworthy.

(3) At the start of each period when the office of the Statistician is vacant or the Statistician is absent from duty or from Australia, or is, for any reason, unable to perform the duties of the office, the senior available appointee who has had the greatest number of days since they last acted as Statistician, is to act as Statistician during that period.

(4) However, if a person who is acting as Statistician during a period (under subsection (3) or a previous application of this subsection) ceases at a particular time to be a senior available appointee, the senior available appointee who has had the greatest number of days since they last acted as Statistician at that time is to act as Statistician during the remainder of that period.

(5) In determining who has had the greatest number of days since they last acted as Statistician under subsections (3) and (4), in relation to a senior available appointee who has not previously acted as Statistician, use instead the number of days since the senior available appointee started in their current position in the Bureau.

(6) Under subsection 33A(1) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, each appointment under subsection (1) is determined to be on the same terms and conditions that apply to the Statistician under section 9 of the Act.