Bullen v State Services Commission - [1985] 1 NZLR 402

Public Service — Transfer — Power of State Services Commission to transfer an officer administratively (s 37) and to transfer after disciplinary action has been taken (s 58) - Following investigations into problems at the Dunedin District Office of Ministry of Works, the Dunedin Office was reorganised and two senior officers were transferred to Wellington at their existing salaries and grades — No disciplinary charges were laid — Officers claimed that they had been transferred for disciplinary reasons — Whether Commission's decision was invalid — State Services Act 1962, ss 37, 39, 56 and 58.

Administrative law — Duty to act fairly — Transfer within Public Service under s 37 - Whether an employee is entitled to be heard by the State Services Commission before it makes a decision under s 37 of the State Services Act 1962 to transfer him.