s 18 Promotion of chief executive
18.—(1) A Group 1 public body must not promote its chief executive to a higher grade in that office without the prior concurrence of the Public Service Commission with the promotion. (2) Where an individual has been promoted by a public body in contravention of subsection (1), the responsible Minister for the public body may give a direction to the public body to take such steps as are necessary to rectify the contravention; and the public body must comply with that direction despite any agreement or other law. (3) This section does not apply in relation to a chief executive of a public body who is a public officer under a secondment arrangement making available temporarily to the public body the service of the public officer.