Government Sector Employment Act 2013

The Governor may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, for or with respect to any matter that by this Act is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

In particular, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following—

the employment of persons in the government sector (including employment in special cases, leave, allowances, redeployment, mobility and termination),

any matter that may be dealt with in the government sector employment rules (in which case the regulations prevail to the extent of any inconsistency with those rules).

The regulations may preclude an employee of a government sector agency who receives a severance or redundancy payment because of a cessation of employment from being engaged in the public sector (referred to in section 41) during a period after that cessation of employment unless arrangements have been made for a refund of a proportionate amount of the payment.

The regulations may make provision relating to the calculation of the proportionate amount of a payment to be refunded under subsection (3) or under section 41 (3) or 78 (7).

A regulation may create an offence punishable by a penalty not exceeding 10 penalty units.