Administrative Requirements

Electronic payment methods provide significant opportunities to maximise savings through the elimination of inefficient paper-based processes, and benefit suppliers and individuals through more timely payments.

The Code of Ethics and Conduct for NSW government sector employees (The Code) requires each senior executive to make a written declaration of private financial, business, personal and other interests or relationships that have the potential to influence, or could be perceived to influence, decisions made or advice given by the senior executive.

The NSW Government Information Classification, Labelling and Handling Guidelines (the Guidelines): provide a consistent and structured approach to the classification and labelling of sensitive information to be used by all NSW agencies allow for integration between the existing sensitive information labels in NSW and the information security classification markings used by the Commonwealth assist agencies in identifying security classified or sensitive information, and in applying appropriate markings to this information clarify where classification and labelling systems overlap encourage better practices in protective security procedures by all NSW agencies The Guidelines support the implementation of NSW Government Digital Information Security Policy, issued under OFS Circular C2015-05, which establishes the digital information security requirements for the NSW public sector.

Key points The NSW Government has identified cloud-based ICT services as a key factor in driving better value ICT investment and improving the agility, scalability and reliability of ICT services.

Government Sector Employment Act 2013 The Government Sector Employment Act 2013 (GSE Act) commenced on 24 February 2014.

Content and Nature of Proposals for inclusion in Bills Bills will contain the following matters only: minor amendments proposed by government agencies minor amendments by way of pure statute law revision proposed by the Parliamentary Counsel repeals of obsolete or unnecessary Acts and transfer of savings and transitional provisions with ongoing effect, proposed by government agencies or the Parliamentary Counsel savings and transitional provisions.

Ministerial correspondence is an important avenue of communication between the public and government.

On 10 July 2015 the Industrial Relations Commission made the Crown Employees Wages Staff (Rates of Pay) Award 2015 which increases wages and wage based allowances by 2.5 per cent from the first pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2015.

This Direction deals with procurement of goods and services, including construction, by or for a government agency within the meaning of the Public Works and Procurement Act 1912 (as amended).