Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No. 184

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES’ FURLOUGH ACT 1943-1968.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Act 1943-1968.

Dated this nineteenth day of November, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

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Amendments of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations 

1. After regulation 4 of the Commonwealth Employees’ Furlough Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Salary for T.A.A. pilots.

“4a.—(1.) For the purposes of the Act, salary includes the following allowances payable to a pilot:—

(a) Zone Allowance;

(b) Command Pay;

(c) the amount payable by virtue of section 24a of the Agreement;

(d) the amount payable by virtue of section 24b of the Agreement;

(e) the amount payable by virtue of section 24c of the Agreement; and

(f) an allowance payable to a pilot who is a Supervisory Pilot within the meaning of the Agreement, being an allowance payable in respect of the performance of the duties of a Supervisory Pilot.

“(2.) The conditions subject to which payments to a pilot in accordance with the Act are to include amounts toy way of, or in respect of, Zone Allowance are—

(a) that the pilot was in receipt of that allowance on the day immediately preceding the relevant date;

(b)that the payments are in respect of a period of furlough taken by the pilot; and

(c) that during that furlough the pilot remains in the Zone in respect of which the allowance is payable or, in the case of a married pilot, his family, during his absence from the Zone, remains in that Zone.

“(3.) The condition subject to which payments to a pilot in accordance with the Act are to include amounts by way of, or in respect of, Command Pay is that the pilot has held, or but for his absence on authorized leave would have held, a command or commands entitling him to Command Pay throughout the year immediately preceding the relevant date.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

  Statutory Rules 1957, No. 49, as amended by Statutory Rules 1967, No. 100; 1968, No. 74; and 1969, Nos. and .

23698/69—Price 5c 10/27.10.1969

 

“(4.) The condition subject to which payments to a pilot in accordance with the Act are to include amounts by way of, or in respect of, an allowance referred to in paragraphs (c), (d),(e) or (f) of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation is that the pilot was entitled to the allowance on the day immediately preceding the relevant date.

“(5.) Where a pilot is paid salary otherwise than by way of uniform amounts in respect of uniform periods, an amount equal to the sum of the following amounts is to be the annual salary, for the purposes of the Act, of the pilot:—

(a) an amount equal to twelve times the amount that would be the pilot’s monthly pay for long service leave if the Award applied to the pilot and his monthly pay for long service leave were calculated as provided in the Award;

(b)an amount equal to the annual rate, applicable to the pilot in accordance with the next succeeding sub-regulation, of any Command Pay payable to him that is included in his salary by virtue of this regulation; and

(c) an amount equal to the sum of the annual rates, applicable to the pilot, or the annual amounts, as the case may be, of each other allowance payable to him that is included in his salary by virtue of these Regulations.

“(6.) For the purposes of paragraph (b) of the last preceding sub-regulation, the annual rate of Command pay applicable to a pilot is—

(a) if he held only one command entitling him to Command Pay throughout the year immediately preceding the relevant date—the annual rate of Command Pay payable in respect of that command; or

(b) if he held more than one command entitling him to Command Pay during that year—the annual rate of Command Pay payable in respect of the command held in that year for which the lowest annual rate is payable.

“(7.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, for the purposes of this regulation, expressions in this regulation or in the Award have the same meaning as in the Agreement.

“(8.) In this regulation, unless the contrary intention appears—

‘pilot’ means an airline pilot in the service of the Australian National Airlines Commission;

‘the Agreement’ means the Airline Pilots Agreement 1966 being the agreement between Ansett Transport Industries, East-West Airlines, MacRobertson Miller Airlines, Trans-Australia Airlines and airline pilots in the service of those employers as represented by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots signed on the third day of May, 1967;

‘the Award’ means the Award in the Decision of the Flight Crew Officers’ Industrial Tribunal given at Melbourne on the eleventh day of July, 1968, in the matter of Australian Federation of Air Pilots and Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Limited — Ansett-A.N.A. and the Australian National Airlines Commission (T.A.A.);

‘the relevant date’, in relation to a pilot, means the date on which his furlough commences or as at which payment in lieu of furlough is made.”.

Application.

2. The amendment made by the last preceding regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the nineteenth day of March, 1968.

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