Preservation of rights
47 Preservation of rights
This section applies to a person appointed as a judicial registrar or acting judicial registrar if, immediately before the appointment, the person was an employee of a prescribed authority (the relevant prescribed authority).
The person keeps the rights the person has accrued because of employment by a prescribed authority, or that would accrue in the future to the person because of that employment, as if service as a judicial registrar or acting judicial registrar were a continuation of the person’s service as an employee of the relevant prescribed authority.
Subsection (4) applies if the person stops being a judicial registrar or acting judicial registrar, other than because the person is removed from office under section 28(3).
The person is entitled to be appointed to a position in the relevant prescribed authority at the classification level of the substantive position in which the person was employed at the relevant prescribed authority immediately before the person’s appointment as judicial registrar or acting judicial registrar.
Subsection (6) applies if the person stops being a judicial registrar or acting judicial registrar because the person is appointed to a position in a prescribed authority.
The person’s service as judicial registrar or acting judicial registrar is taken to be service of a like nature with the prescribed authority for working out the person’s rights as an employee of the prescribed authority.
In this section—classification level, at a prescribed authority, includes another level, however described, reflecting seniority at the prescribed authority.employee, of a prescribed authority, means—
a public service officer employed by the prescribed authority; or
a police officer employed by the prescribed authority; or
a person, other than a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) or a person employed on a temporary or casual basis, employed by the prescribed authority.
prescribed authority means—
a department; or
the Crime and Corruption Commission; or
Legal Aid Queensland; or
the Queensland Police Service; or
another entity prescribed by regulation.
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