Commonwealth Public Service Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 188.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1902-1917 (SEVENTH AMENDMENT 1918).

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 1902-1917 to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this seventeenth day of July, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

E. D. MILLEN,

for Acting Prime Minister.

 

Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

(Statutory Rules No. 1913/341, as amended by Statutory Rules No. 1916/307.)

Regulation 81 of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations is repealed, and the following is inserted in its stead:—

81 (1.) No leave shall be granted with pay on account of sickness or ill-health caused by the misconduct of the officer or in any case of absence from duty without sufficient cause. To satisfy himself on such points, the Chief Officer may arrange with a medical practitioner to visit and examine the officer or may require the officer to attend on a medical practitioner for examination. The medical practitioner shall furnish a report of his examination to the Chief Officer, and if such report is, in the opinion of the Chief Officer, not favorable to the officer concerned, or if the officer is not available for examination at the time of the medical practitioner’s visit without, in the opinion of the Chief Officer, reasonable cause therefor, a fee for the examination shall be deducted from any money which is or becomes payable to the officer by the Government. The fee for examination shall be 10s. 6d. if conducted at the rooms of the medical practitioner and £1 1s if he is required to visit the officer: provided that in any case where the distance to be travelled would, in the opinion of the Chief Officer, warrant a greater fee than £1 1s., such fee may be paid as is arranged between the Chief Officer and the medical practitioner. The fee shall be paid to the examining medical practitioner unless he be a permanent officer of the Service, when it shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue.

(2.) An officer shall submit himself to medical examination when required to do so by the medical practitioner selected by the Chief Officer.

   

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