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National Employment Centre (Amendment) Act 2017

REPUBLIC OF FIJI


NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT CENTRE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2017

ACT NO. 12 OF 2017

I assent.
J. K. KONROTE President
[28 March 2017]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT CENTRE ACT 2009

ENACTED by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji—

Short title and commencement

1. — This Act may be cited as the National Employment Centre (Amendment) Act 2017.

(2) This Act comes into force on a date or dates appointed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

(3) In this Act, the National Employment Centre Act 2009 is referred to as the “Principal Act”.

Section 5 amended

2. Section 5(1) of the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new definition—

““Higher Education Commission” means the Higher Education Commission established under section 5 of the Higher Education Act 2008;”

Section 18 amended

3. Section 18 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) deleting subsection (1)(g) and substituting the following—
(b) in subsection (5), deleting “chief executive officer or”.

Section 25 amended

4. Section 25 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) in subsection (1)—
(b) in subsection (2), inserting “Permanent Secretary with the agreement of the” before “Minister”.

Section 29 amended

5. Section 29 of the Principal Act is amended by deleting “the host Ministers of the respective services” and substituting “the Minister responsible for civil service”.

Section 47 amended

6. Section 47 of the Principal Act is amended by—

(a) in subsection (1), inserting “national, regional or international” after “with”;
(b) inserting the following new subsection after subsection (2)—

Section 70 amended

7. Section 70(5) of the Principal Act is amended by deleting “chief executive officer or”.

Section 77 amended

8. Section 77(2) of the Principal Act is amended by deleting “Human Resource Management Division of the Public Service Commission to be the Fiji Volunteer Service” and substituting “Fiji Volunteer Service to be operated under or hosted by the Ministry of Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations”.

Section 97 amended

9. Section 97(1) of the Principal Act is amended in paragraph (a) by inserting “professional counselling, aptitude assessment,” before “life”.

Section 103 amended

10. Section 103 of the Principal Act is amended in subsections (1) and (4) by inserting “after consultation with the National Employment Centre Board” after “Board”.

Passed by the Parliament of the Republic of Fiji this 22nd day of March 2017.


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