91A   Appointment of long-term temporary employees to permanent positions

(1)  In this section:

long-term temporary employee is a temporary employee whose employment as such an employee falls within a continuous employment period of at least 2 years.

non-executive administrative position means a position of a non-executive administrative officer (as defined in Part 6A).

(2)  A long-term temporary employee may be appointed to a non-executive administrative position under this section, if each of the following requirements is satisfied:

(a)  the duties of the position concerned must be substantially the same as the duties performed by the employee at the time of the employee’s initial employment on merit (that is, the employment referred to in paragraph (e)),

(b)  the rate of salary or wages proposed to be payable to the holder of the position concerned at the time of appointment must not exceed the maximum rate payable for Grade 12, Administrative and Clerical Division, of the Public Service,

(c)  the Commissioner must be satisfied that on-going work is available in respect of the employee,

(d)  the Commissioner must be satisfied that the employee has the relevant skills, qualifications, experience, work performance standards and personal qualities to enable the employee to perform the duties of the position concerned,

(e)  the employee must (initially or at some later stage) have been employed as a temporary employee in some form of open competition involving the selection of the person who, in the opinion of the then Commissioner, had the greatest merit among candidates for appointment.

(3)  An appointment under this section is not an appointment to which section 81 (Appointment on merit) applies.