Governor may enter into arrangement
25 Governor may enter into arrangement
The Governor on behalf of the State may enter into any arrangement, or supplementary arrangement, mentioned in section 5 of the Statistics (Arrangements with States) Act 1956 of the Commonwealth Parliament or any Act passed in amendment of, or substitution for, that Act by the Commonwealth Parliament, with the Governor‑General of the Commonwealth with respect to the collection and publication of statistics, and the supply of statistical information, for the purposes of both the Commonwealth and the State.
Without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by subsection (1), the Governor on behalf of the State may enter into an arrangement with the Governor‑General of the Commonwealth in, or substantially in, the form of arrangement set out in the Schedule.
Any arrangement or supplementary arrangement entered into pursuant to this section by the Governor on behalf of the State with the Governor‑General of the Commonwealth has by virtue of this subsection effect according to its tenor.
[Section 25 inserted: No. 62 of 1956 s. 3.]
Schedule — Arrangement between Commonwealth and State
[s. 25(2).]
[Heading amended: No. 19 of 2010 s. 4.]
AN ARRANGEMENT entered into BETWEEN HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR‑GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council AND HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA acting with the advice of the Executive Council of the State WHEREBY IT IS AGREED as follows: —
1. The Commonwealth of Australia (in this arrangement called “the Commonwealth”) will create an office in the Public Service of the Commonwealth of Deputy Commonwealth Statistician for the State of Western Australia (the occupant of which office from time to time is in this arrangement called “the Deputy Commonwealth Statistician”).
2. The functions of the Deputy Commonwealth Statistician shall be to administer, subject to the general control and supervision of the Commonwealth Statistician, an office (in this arrangement called “the Integrated Statistical Service”) for the integrated collection and publication of statistics, and the supply of statistical information, for the purposes of both the Commonwealth and the State.
3. (1) The person occupying the office of Government Statistician of the State at the date of this arrangement shall resign from the Public Service of the State and, subject to the provisions of the Statistics (Arrangements with States) Act 1956 of the Commonwealth and of the Public Service Act 1922‑1955 of the Commonwealth, shall thereupon be appointed to the office of Deputy Commonwealth Statistician in the Public Service of the Commonwealth, but notwithstanding that resignation shall continue to occupy the office of Government Statistician under the Statistics Act 1907 of the State.
In this arrangement, the expression “the Government Statistician” means the occupant at the relevant time of the office of Government Statistician under the Statistics Act 1907 of the State.
4. Subsequent appointments to the office of Deputy Commonwealth Statistician as and when it becomes vacant will be made in accordance with and subject to the procedures of the Commonwealth after consultation between the Commonwealth Statistician and the appropriate Commonwealth and State authorities and the State will, in accordance with and subject to its own procedures, at the same time appoint the same person to the office of Government Statistician of the State.
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