27   Legal proceedings not to be brought in respect of appointments etc

(1979 Act, s 65A (1)–(3), (6))

(1)  The appointment or failure to appoint a person to a vacant position in the Public Service, or any matter, question or dispute relating to such an appointment or failure, is not an industrial matter for the purposes of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

(2)  Subsection (1) applies whether or not any person has been appointed to the vacant position.

(3)  No proceedings, whether for an order in the nature of prohibition, certiorari or mandamus or for a declaration or injunction or for any other relief, lie in respect of the appointment or failure to appoint a person to a position in the Public Service, the entitlement or non-entitlement of a person to be so appointed or the validity or invalidity of any such appointment.

(4)  Subsection (3) does not affect the operation of the Government and Related Employees Appeal Tribunal Act 1980.