Civil Service Amendment Act

Civil Service (Amendment) Act

 

An Act to reform and improve His Majesty’s Civil Service in order to better address and support the needs of the state, and to make changes to the preceding Act in order to address its proven shortcomings.

 

AUTHOR: Lord Baldassar Greyson-Partiger, Viscount of Bloodwick

SPONSORS: Lady Oliviana Tate, Baroness of Riverwall

 

BE IT ENACTED by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Temporal, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

 

1 Formation of the Ministry of Justice  
 * 1) Under the authority of the Lord High Chancellor, there shall exist a “Ministry of Justice” officially, or “Justice Ministry” informally.

2 Formation of the Ministry of Health  
 * 1) Under the authority of the Lord High Physician, there shall exist a “Ministry of Health” officially, or “Health Ministry” informally.

3 Establishment of the position of “Undersecretary”  
 * 1) Subdivisions of departments (ministries) may be established by the departmental minister or by the relevant Permanent Secretary to attend to the administrative needs of the Ministry.
 * 2) Such a subdivision may be administratively chaired by an “Undersecretary”, who shall rank between the Permanent Secretary and any agency or board Directors in terms of the bureaucratic hierarchy.
 * 3) Undersecretaries, like Permanent Secretaries or Directors, are also subject to the same impeachment procedures that their superior and inferior officials may face as outlined in the Civil Service Act.

4 Short title and commencement The provisions of section 2 shall come into force on August 1st, 627KC.
 * 1) The short title of this act shall be the “Civil Service (Amendment) Act”.
 * 2) The provisions of sections 1, 3, and 4 shall come into force immediately.