Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY COUNSEL ACT 1970 - SECT 16

  (1)   The staff required for the purposes of this Act shall be persons engaged under the Public Service Act 1999 .

  (2)   For the purposes of the Public Service Act 1999 :

  (a)   the First Parliamentary Counsel and the APS employees assisting the First Parliamentary Counsel together constitute a Statutory Agency; and

  (b)   the First Parliamentary Counsel is the Head of that Statutory Agency.