Poananga v State Services Commission - [1985] 2 NZLR 385

Public Service — Transfer — Test to be applied — Power of State Services Commission to transfer an officer administratively (s 37) and to transfer after disciplinary action has been taken (s 58) - Officer in Ministry of Foreign Affairs was transferred under s 37, without prior warning, at existing salary and grade to Department of Scientific and Industrial Research — No disciplinary charges were laid — Whether transfer was invalid because disciplinary procedures were not followed — State Services Act 1962, ss 37, 39, 56 and 58.