Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 89.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922–1930.

THE President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon them by the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922–1930, and subject to the approval of the Governor-General, hereby make the following amendment of Regulation, such amendment to come into operation on and from the fourteenth day of May, 1931.

Dated this eighteenth day of June, 1931.

WALTER KINGSMILL

President of the Senate.

NORMAN J. O. MAKIN

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Approved in Executive Council this fifteenth day of July, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

L. CUNNINGHAM

for Prime Minister.

 

Amendment of the Commonwealth Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulation.

The regulation contained in Statutory Rules 1928, No. 104, is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“(1.) Subject to the approval of the prescribed authority, any person who, by reason of the removal of a parliamentary department, was compulsorily transferred to Canberra, or was appointed to a position in a parliamentary department before the twentieth day of October, 1927, may, if residing in Canberra, be paid, until otherwise determined by the prescribed authority, a special allowance at the rate of Thirty-nine pounds per annum if married, or Twenty-six pounds per annum if unmarried:

Provided that this regulation shall not apply to any officer transferred from Canberra at any time in circumstances which, in the opinion of the prescribed authority do not justify payment of an allowance under this sub-regulation on re-transfer to Canberra.

(2.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, an officer shall be deemed to be married if he is a widower with dependent children or maintains dependants whose circumstances, in the opinion of the prescribed authority, justify his being treated as a married officer.

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(3.) Unless otherwise determined by the prescribed authority, an officer appointed, transferred, or promoted to an office in Canberra, whether before or after the commencement of this regulation, who resides at one of the Commonwealth hotels or boarding-houses, may be paid an allowance, excluding fractions of a pound, equal to twenty-five per centum of the amount charged the officer for his board and lodging, but not exceeding Thirty-nine pounds per annum:

Provided, however, that such allowance shall not be paid in addition to an allowance payable under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, or under regulation 96 of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations, but shall, if greater, be paid in lieu of that allowance.

(4.) Unless otherwise determined by the prescribed authority, an officer appointed, transferred or promoted to an office in Canberra before the commencement of this regulation—

(a) who is at the commencement of this regulation in receipt of an allowance under sub-regulation (1.) of the regulation for which this regulation is substituted shall—

(i) receive an allowance at a rate specified in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation; and

(ii) if the officer has purchased or built a house in Canberra prior to the commencement of this regulation—receive an additional allowance equal to the difference between the amount to which he is entitled under the last preceding paragraph and the amount which he was receiving, immediately prior to the commencement of this regulation, under the regulation for which this regulation is substituted; or

(b) who has purchased or built a house in Canberra prior to the commencement of this regulation, and who immediately prior to the commencement of this regulation was in receipt of an allowance under sub-regulation (2.) of the regulation for which this regulation is substituted— shall continue to receive such allowance.

(5.) An officer who is in receipt of an allowance under the provisions of this regulation shall notify the Permanent Head immediately in the event of any change occurring in his domestic conditions which affects his eligibility for payment of the allowance, or in his place of residence, or of any alteration in the amount paid by him for board and lodging.

(6.) For the purposes of this regulation, “prescribed authority” in relation to any approval, determination or opinion required to be given, made or formed—

(a) in respect of an officer of the Senate—means the President of the Senate;

(b) in respect of an officer of the House of Representatives—means the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and

(c) in respect of an officer of the Parliamentary Library, the Parliamentary Reporting Staff or of the Joint House Department—means the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.