REPUBLIC OF NAURU
PUBLIC SERVICE (AMENDMENT) No. 2 ACT 2018
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No.  33 of 2018
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An Act to amend the Public Service Act 2016 
Certified: 18th December 2018

Table of Contents

1 	Short title
2 	Commencement
3 	Amendment of the Public Service Act 2016
4 	SECTION 84 REPEALED AND REPLACED

Enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:
1	Short title
This Act may be cited as the Public Service (Amendment) No. 2 Act 2018.
2	Commencement
This Act commences upon certification by the Speaker.	
3	Amendment of the Public Service Act 2016
The Public Service Act 2016 is amended by the provisions of this Act.
4	Section 84 repealed and replaced
Section 84 is repealed and replaced as follows: 
84 		Election candidates - resignation
‘(1) Any employee who intends to submit a nomination as a candidate  in  Nauru’s general elections must resign within 5 days from the date the writ of elections is published under section 56 of the Electoral Act 2016.

(2) An employee who intends to submit a nomination as a candidate: 

(a)	in a by-election; or

(b)	in a general election which is held due to an early dissolution of Parliament under Article 41(7) of the Constitution, - 

shall resign within 5 days from the date the writ of elections is published under section 56 of the Electoral Act. 

(3) In this section, ‘employee’ includes public service employees, contract employees who are eligible to stand for elections, temporary employees and heads of departments.’