Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 4791

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Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979.

Dated 21 December 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER WALSH

Minister of State for Finance for and on behalf of the

Prime Minister

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1. After Part IIa of the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Regulations the following Part is inserted:

“PART IIb—RETIRING AGES

Minimum retiring age—Air Traffic Controllers

“21b.(1) For the purposes of paragraph (a) of the definition of ‘minimum retiring age’ in sub-section 17 (2) of the Act, the age of 50years is the minimum retiring age in respect of each of the following classes of employees:

(a) employees, each of whom is an officer whose classification is specified in Schedule 2;

(b) employees, each of whom is an officer who—

(i) occupies an office in the Department of Aviation, being an office specified in Schedule 3; and

 

(ii) at any time before occupying that office, occupied, for a period or an aggregate of periods, exceeding 10 years, an office the duties of which were those of an Air Traffic Controller.

“(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) (b) (ii)—

(a) in determining whether a person, who has become an officer on more than one occasion, has occupied, for a period, or an aggregate of periods, exceeding 10 years, an office the duties of which were those of an Air Traffic Controller, any period before the last occasion on which the person became an officer shall be disregarded; and

(b) an officer, being an unattached officer, who performed the duties of an Air Traffic Controller for a period in the course of the officer’s duty, shall be taken to have occupied, for that period, an office the duties of which were those of an Air Traffic Controller.

“(3) In this regulation, ‘classification’, ‘office’ and ‘officer’ have the same respective meanings as they have in the Public Service Act 1922”.

Schedule

2. The Schedule to the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Regulations is amended by omitting the heading “SCHEDULE” and substituting “SCHEDULE 1”.

3. The Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedules:

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SCHEDULE 2

Paragraph 21b (1) (a)

CLASSIFICATION OF OFFICERS

Air Traffic Control Superintendent

Air Traffic Controller Class 1

Air Traffic Controller Class 2

Air Traffic Controller Class 2a

Air Traffic Controller Class 3

Air Traffic Controller Class 3a

Air Traffic Controller Class 4

Air Traffic Controller Class 4a

Air Traffic Controller Class 5

Air Traffic Controller Class 5a

Air Traffic Controller Class 6

Air Traffic Controller Class 6a

Air Traffic Controller Class 7

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SCHEDULE 3Paragraph 21b (1) (b)

OFFICES

Airways Operations Superintendent,

Airways Branch, New South Wales

Airways Operations Superintendent,

Airways Branch, Queensland

Airways Operations Superintendent,

Airways Branch, Victoria

Assistant Director (Operations),

Air Traffic Services Branch

Assistant Director (Operations),

Airways Operations Branch,

South Australia

Assistant Director (Operations),

Airways Operations Branch,

Western Australia

Director, Airways Services Requirements,

Airways Systems Branch

Director, Emergency Requirements,

Airways Systems Branch

Director, Environment Operations,

Air Traffic Services Branch

Director, Future Requirements,

Advanced Planning and Technology Branch

Superintendent, Air Traffic Control Air

Co-ordination and Personnel Standards,

Air Traffic Services Branch

Superintendent, Air Traffic Control Procedures,

Air Traffic Services Branch

Superintendent, Operational Control and Search and Rescue,

Air Traffic Services Branch

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 January 1985.

2. Statutory Rules 1981 No. 13 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1984 No. 133 and see also