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Higher Education (Amendment) Act 1998

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Higher Education (Amendment) Act 1998

No. 18 of 1998
Certified on: 06.08.1998

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

1. Act declared to be in national interest.
2. Interpretation (Amendment of Section 2).
3. Membership of the Commission (Amendment of Section 6).
4. Office of Higher Education (Amendment of Section 18).
5. New Section 18A.

"18A. DIRECTOR GENERAL.

AN ACT

entitled

Higher Education (Amendment) Act 1998,

Being an Act to amend the Higher Education Act (Chapter 397),

MADE by the National Parliament.

1. ACT DECLARED TO BE IN NATIONAL INTEREST.

For the purposes of -

(a) Section 29 of the Organic Law on Provincial Government; and
(b) Section 41 of the Organic Law on Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments,

it is hereby declared that this Act relates to a matter of national interest.

2. INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 2).

Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after the definition of "Declared institution" the following new definition:-

"'Director General' means the Director General of the Office of Higher Education appointed under Section 18A.".

3. MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 6).

Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended –

(a) in Subsection (1), by repealing Paragraph (a) and replacing it with the following:-

• "(a) the Chairman, who shall be appointed by notice in the National Gazette by the Head of State, acting on advice given after consultation with the Minister; and"; and

(b) in Subsection (2), by repealing Paragraph (b) and replacing it with the following:-

• "(b) appointed on honorarium on a part-time basis on such terms and conditions as are determined by the Head of State, acting on advice; and".

4. OFFICE OF HIGHER EDUCATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 18).

Section 18(4) of the Principal Act is repealed.

5. NEW SECTION 18A.

The Principal Act is amended by inserting after Section 18 the following new section:-

"18A. DIRECTOR GENERAL.
(1) An office of Director General of the Office of Higher Education is hereby established.
"(2) The Director General shall be -

• (a) appointed by notice in the National Gazette by the Head of State, acting on advice given after consultation with the Departmental Head of the Department of Personnel Management; and
• (b) appointed for a period of three years; and
• (c) subject to the Salaries and Conditions Monitoring Committee Act 1988, appointed on such terms and conditions as are determined by the Head of State, acting on advice; and
• (d) be eligible for re-appointment.

"(3) For the purposes of the Public Services (Management) Act 1995 the Director General is, in relation to the officers and employees of, and to offices in the Office of Higher Education, deemed to be the Departmental Head.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Higher Education (Amendment) Act 1998 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Clerk of the National Parliament.

I hereby certify that the Higher Education (Amendment) Act 1998 was made by the National Parliament on 7 July 1998.

Speaker of the National Parliament.