Commonwealth Public Service Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1915. No. 12.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1902-1913.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902-1913 to come into operation forthwith. Such Regulation shall supersede the Provisional Regulation (Statutory Rules 1914, No, 157) under the said Act made on the fourth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

Dated this twenty-first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

(Sgd.) R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) W. M. HUGHES.

 

104f. Upon the approval of the Commissioner, officers of the General Division may be transferred as Acting Telegraphists, or Acting Clerical Assistants, to perform Telegraphists’ duties in the Head Telegraph Offices, or duties of Telegraphist or Clerical Assistant at other telegraphic centres in the Commonwealth, subject to the following conditions:—

(a) No transfer shall be made under the provisions of this Regulation to any existing vacancy for Telegraphist or Clerical Assistant while there is a qualified candidate available for such vacancy.

(b) The salary of an officer transferred as Acting Telegraphist or Acting Clerical Assistant shall be the same as that for which he is eligible in the position from which he is transferred, provided that the officer shall receive by way of allowance any difference between his salary and the amount he would receive, if, at the time of his transfer as Acting Telegraphist or Acting Clerical Assistant, he had been eligible for transfer to the Clerical Division as Telegraphist or Clerical Assistant, and had been so transferred.

(c) No officer shall be transferred as Acting Telegraphist or Acting Clerical Assistant unless he has passed a telegraphic test in sending and receiving by sound telegraph messages at the rate of twenty-five words a minute; and, in selecting officers for transfer, preference shall be given those who have competed at an examination for transfer to the Clerical Division.

(d) No officer who has not passed an examination for transfer to the Clerical Division shall be transferred unless he give an undertaking to the Chief Officer, in writing, that he will attend, immediately upon transfer, a school approved by the Chief Officer, with the object of passing an examination for transfer to the Clerical Division, and that he will compete at such examination within two years from

C.392.—Price 3d.

 

date of transfer. Subject to the production of receipts for fees for tuition at such school, accompanied by a satisfactory school report as to attendance, and attention to study, the officer shall be refunded the coat of fees paid up to an amount at the rate of £12 per annum.

(e) An officer who does not pass an examination for transfer to the Clerical Division prior to the completion of two years’ service as Acting Telegraphist or Acting Clerical Assistant may be transferred to the position in the General Division formerly occupied by him, or such other position not inferior in status, as the Commissioner nay direct.

 

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