What the official record says
This Act is the Public Service Legislation Act . comes into force on a date set by Order in Council. comes into force on . The rest of this Act comes into force on the day after the date of Royal assent. The purposes of this Act are— to continue the public service and modernise its operation, while recognising and enhancing the non-legislative conventions that it operates under: to set out the shared purpose, principles, and values of the public service and the people working in it: to establish organisational forms and ways of working, including across public service agencies, to achieve better outcomes for the public: to extend some provisions of this Act that apply to the public service to other State services and other areas of government: to affirm that the fundamental characteristic