Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1936. No. 143.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922–1934.*

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922–1934, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the said Act, and subject to the approval of the Governor-General, hereby makes the following Regulation.

Dated this eighth day of October, 1936.

W. J. CLEMENS

Chairman.

Approved in Executive Council this fourteenth day of October, 1936.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

For Prime Minister.

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Amendments of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations. 

Regulation 51 of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Leave for defence purposes.

“51.—(1.) An officer who is a member of the Defence Force shall be granted by the Chief Officer leave of absence with full pay for the purpose of attending training camps, drills, parades, schools, classes or courses of instruction in which his unit is participating:

Provided that evidence of the necessity for such attendance shall be submitted with an officer’s application, and, at the conclusion of the training camp, drill, parade, school, class or course of instruction, the officer shall produce to the Chief Officer a certificate of attendance thereat:

Provided also that if it would not be in the public interest to grant leave of absence under this regulation to an officer for the purpose of attending a training camp, drill, parade, school, class or course of instruction of his own unit, the Chief Officer may grant in lieu leave

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on .

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended by Statutory Rules, 1935.Nos 44, 72, 78 and 119, and 1936, Nos. 5, 55, 76, 88, 106 and 116.

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of absence as prescribed in this regulation for the purpose of attending an equivalent training camp, drill, parade, school, class or course of instruction of another unit.

(2.) Leave of absence granted under this regulation shall not be deducted from recreation leave.

(3.) An officer who, while undergoing the training referred to in this regulation, sustains injury or contracts illness necessitating his absence from duty beyond the period of leave with full pay granted under this regulation may be granted leave on the following terms:—

(a) If compensation is not paid to the officer by the Department of Defence in respect to such absence, the leave may be granted as sick leave.

(b)If compensation is paid, and is equal to or exceeds the amount of remuneration which the officer would have received had he been granted sick leave, the leave shall be granted without pay.

(c) If compensation is paid, and is less than the amount of remuneration which the officer would have received had he been granted sick leave, he shall be paid the difference, and his sick leave credit shall be reduced as if he had been granted sick leave with pay corresponding to the amount of the difference.

(4.) This regulation shall apply to temporary employees:

Provided that where the employee’s services are not further required, leave shall only be granted to the date on which he would have ordinarily ceased duty.”

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By Authority: L. F.