Public Service Act 1999

This section applies if a survey known as an Australian Public Service Employee Census is conducted in a financial year.

The Agency Head of an Agency must:

prepare an action plan that sets out the Agency Head’s response to the census results, so far as those results relate to the Agency; and

do so as soon as practicable after those results are made known to the Agency Head.

The Agency Head must:

publish:

the census results, so far as those results relate to the Agency; and

the action plan prepared by the Agency Head under subsection (2); and

do so as soon as practicable after the first day on which a copy of the State of the Service report for the financial year is laid before a House of the Parliament.

The Commissioner may, by writing, exempt an Agency Head from publishing, under subsection (3), either or both of the following:

census results;

an action plan.

The Commissioner may, by writing, authorise an Agency Head to remove specified material from either or both of the following:

the copy of the census results;

the copy of an action plan;

An Agency Head must remove any material that is reasonably likely to enable the identification of an individual from:

the copy of the census results; or

the copy of an action plan;

An exemption under subsection (4) is not a legislative instrument.

An authorisation under subsection (5) is not a legislative instrument.