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The Commissioner for Public Sector Standards is an independent person appointed by the Governor. The Commissioner’s functions include:

• Establishing public sector standards in human resource management (the Standards), and
• Recommending, administering and monitoring compliance with regulations to provide relief for a breach of the standards (the regulations).

Under the Act and regulations breach of standards claims can only be made about decisions relating to the public sector standards in human resource management.

The Public Sector Management Act 1994 does not give the Commissioner any function to receive and provide redress for complaints from individuals about other human resource or integrity matters. However, information received from individuals about alleged non-compliance with these other human resource or integrity matters assists the Commissioner to monitor compliance and contributes to the Commissioner’s independent scrutiny of the public sector.

The standards are based on principles rather than rules and allow public sector agencies to design human resource practices that suit their business requirements and are consistent with the relevant standards.

Each standard comprises of an outcome statement that provides the vision of what the standard is trying to achieve. It also includes minimum standards based on the three principles of merit, equity and probity as provided for under the Act.

Explanatory notes have been developed for each standard. These do not form part of a standard, rather they clarify when the standard applies, give some helpful hints about understanding the standard and identify other relevant legislation.

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