PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Regulatory Statutory Authorities (Appointment to Certain Offices) (Amendment) Act 2024

No. 3 of 2024.
Certified on: 16 MAY 2024

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Procedure following merit-based appointment process (Amendment of Section 6).
2. Transitional and savings (Amendment of Section 15).

An Act 
entitled
Regulatory Statutory Authorities (Appointment to Certain Offices) (Amendment) Act 2024,
Being an Act to amend the Regulatory Statutory Authorities (Appointment to Certain Offices) Act 2004 and for related purposes,
MADE by the National Parliament to come into operation in accordance with a notice in the National Gazette by the Head of State, acting with, and in accordance with, the advice of the Minister.
1. PROCEDURE FOLLOWING MERIT-BASED APPOINTMENT PROCESS (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 6).
Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting immediately after Subsection (3), the following new subsection:
	"(4) Where a person is re-appointed as a chief executive officer of a Regulatory Statutory Authority after his term of appointment has expired, his re­appointment remains valid as long as the re-appointment process was commenced prior to the expiry date of his last term of appointment. ".
2. TRANSITIONAL AND SAVINGS (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 15).
Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting immediately after Subsection (2), the following new subsection:
	"(3) A chief executive officer of a Regulatory Statutory Authority to which Section 6(4) applies, who was re-appointed prior to or as of 12 September 2022, shall, on the coming into operation of this Act, be deemed to have been re-appointed in accordance with this Act.".
I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Regulatory Statutory Authorities (Appointment to Certain Offices) Act 2024 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament 
16 MAY 2024
I hereby certify that the Regulatory Statutory Authorities (Appointment to Certain Offices) Act 2024 was made by the National Parliament on 20 February 2024.
Speaker of the National Parliament
16 MAY 2024