Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 58

REGULATIONS UNDER THE LONG SERVICE LEAVE (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) ACT 1976.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976.

Dated this fifth day of May, 1977.

A. R. CUTLER

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. A. STREET

Minister of State for Employment and Industrial Relations for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

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Amendments of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations 

1. Regulation 1 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—

Citation.

“ 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Regulations.”.

2. Regulation 2 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—

Definition.

“ 2. In these Regulations, ‘ the Act ’ means the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976.”.

Salary to include district allowance.

3. Regulation 4d of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the words and figures “ subsection (1) of section 7 and sub-section (1) of section 8 ” and substituting the words and figures “ sections 20 and 21 ”.

Prescribed class of seamen.

4. Regulation 5 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the word and figures “ section 6a ” and substituting the word and figures “ section 15 ”;

(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (1) before paragraph (a) the following paragraphs:—

“ (aa) deck officers;

  (ab) engineer officers;”; and

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 9 May 1977.

  Statutory Rules 1957, No. 49 as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 100; 1968, No. 74; 1969, Nos. 184 and 195; 1970, No. 124; 1972, Nos. 46 and 131; 1973, No. 86; 1974, No. 17; and 1976. Nos. 259 and 267.

(c) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“ (4) For the purposes of paragraph (aa) of sub-regulation (1), officers holding any of the following classifications shall be taken to be deck officers:—

(a) master;

(b) first mate;

(c) second mate; and

(d) third mate, including the classification known as fourth mate.

“ (5) For the purposes of paragraph (ab) of sub-regulation (1), officers holding any of the following classifications shall be taken to be engineer officers:—

(a) chief engineer;

(b) second engineer;

(c) third engineer;

(d) fourth engineer;

(e) fifth engineer;

(f) junior engineer;

(g) first electrician;

(h) second electrician; and

(i) third electrician.”.

Repeal of regulation 6.

5. Regulation 6 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations is repealed.

Previous employment with prescribed authorities, &c., treated as employment in Government Service.

6. Regulation 8 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1) The previous employment of an employee in the service of a person, authority, institution or body that is referred to in column 2 of Schedule 2 shall be taken into account for the purposes of section 11 of the Act as if it had been employment in Government Service.”.