Public Health Act 2016

The person (the incumbent) who, immediately before the day on which this section comes into operation (the commencement day), holds the office of Executive Director, Public Health in the Department —

is to be taken to be designated under section 11 as the Chief Health Officer; and

is to be taken to be designated for a term of office beginning on the commencement day that is the balance of the incumbent’s term of office (the residual term) as Executive Director, Public Health remaining immediately before the commencement day.

Subsection (1)(b) does not prevent the incumbent from again being designated as Chief Health Officer when the residual term expires.

Regardless of section 12(3), if the remuneration that the incumbent would have been entitled to receive as Executive Director, Public Health during the residual term is greater than the remuneration determined for the position of Chief Health Officer by the Salaries and Allowances Tribunal, the incumbent is entitled to receive that greater remuneration during the residual term.