Public Administration - Human Resource Development Unit

L.N. 479 of 2011

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ACT

(CAP. 497)

Public Administration - Human Resource Development Unit

(Establishment as an Agency) Order, 2011

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 36 of the Public

Administration Act, the Prime Minister has made the following

order:–

The title of this order is the Public Administration - Human

Resource Development Unit (Establishment as an Agency) Order,

2011.

(1) There shall be an Agency, to be known as the Public

Administration Human Resource Development Unit, hereinafter

referred to as "the Unit", which shall serve to achieve the retraining

and re-skilling needs of public employees. In this respect

(a)

all public employees performing duties with the

Unit shall be regarded as employees of the Unit. Such

employees may be deployed with or seconded to the Unit or be

directly recruited by the Unit following a call for applications

and, or an expression of interest;

(b) when an individual is recruited by the Unit, he shall

be required to get proof that his former employment has been

terminated, before he is engaged for the retraining or re-skilling

programme as an employee of the Unit; and

(c)

when a person deployed with the Unit is a public

officer, he shall be deemed to be detailed with the Unit in

accordance with article 43 of the Public Administration Act.

(2) The Unit shall, as from the date of the coming into force of

this Order, have the right to assume responsibility for any assets

required for the re-training or re-skilling of public employees after

securing the approval of the Principal Permanent Secretary.

(1)

The Unit shall have the function of retraining and

re-skilling public employees with a view to deploy them and, or

engaging them in any department or entity where their acquired skills

are required.

(2) The Unit shall have the duty to

(a)

identify public employees whose current duties are

not in line with the mandate of their current organisation;

(b) develop an on-the-job retraining or re-skilling

programme with a view to re-integrate such public employees

into the needs of the public administration;

(c)

liaise with the Centre for Development, Research

and Training for class-based training of identified public

employees;

(d) conduct a gap analysis of the required skills which

are currently in demand across the public administration;

(e)

tailor re-skilling and retraining programmes to meet

such gaps;

(f)

redeploy retrained and re-skilled public employees

to designated entities; and

(g) perform any other duties which may be compatible

with the general mandate for the Unit and which the Unit may

be directed to undertake.

(3) For the purposes of sub-regulation (2)(f), the Unit may,

following Ministerial direction, issue calls for application and, or

expressions of interest on behalf of other public sector entities

whether individually or in groups.

(4) When an individual is engaged directly by the Unit in

terms of subregulation (3), the individual shall, on completion of the

retraining programme which is to be established in the relative call

for applications or expression of interest, be transferred to the entity

on whose behalf the Unit issues the call, and the respective

termination and engagement forms shall be completed on the same

day.

(1) The Minister responsible for Unit shall be the Minister

responsible for

Minister responsible for the public administration.

the Unit.

(2) The Principal Permanent Secretary shall supervise the Unit

in terms of article 39 of the Public Administration Act

Provided that the Principal Permanent Secretary may be

assisted in such supervision by another Permanent Secretary in

accordance with the proviso to article 13(5) of the Public Cap. 497.

Administration Act.

The Unit shall be regulated by the provisions of the

Financial Administration and Audit Act, unless otherwise stated in

the agreement between the Principal Permanent Secretary and the

Public Administration Centre for Human Resource Development, in

which case the provisions of this agreement shall prevail.

The operations of the Unit shall be regulated by an

Agreement which is to be agreed upon between the Principal

Permanent Secretary and the Unit.

(1) The Minister responsible for the public

administration may establish an advisory board to assist the Head of

the Unit in the discharge of his duties.

(2) The advisory board established under this regulation shall

consist of not less than two and not more than four members

appointed by the Minister responsible for the public administration.

(3) The remuneration paid to members of the Unit’s advisory

board shall be in accordance with any directives and guidelines issued

according to the provisions of article 42(3) of the Public

Administration Act.

In the Fourth Schedule to the Public Administration Act,

immediately after the item "Aāenzija śgħaŜagħ" in the first column

thereof, and the corresponding function in the second column thereof

there shall be added the following

Agency

Agency function

"Public Administration -

To achieve the retraining and re-skilling

Human Resource

needs of public employees.".

Development Unit

€0.27