Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 54.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1930.

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1930, 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 amendment of 'the Regulations, such amendment to come into operation on and from the fourteenth day of May, 1931.

Dated this seventh day of May, 1931,

W. J. SKEWES, Chairman) Board of

W. J. CLEMENS Commissioners.

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

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. H. SCULLIN

Prime Minister.

 

Amendments of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 212, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 97b is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Allowance to officer transferred to Canberra.

“97b.—(1.) Subject to the approval of the Board, an officer who, by reason of the removal or anticipated removal to Canberra of his Department, is, after the commencement of this regulation, compulsorily transferred to an office in Canberra, may, if residing in Canberra, be paid, until otherwise determined by the Board, 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—

(a) to any officer—

(i) who was not appointed to the Service on or before the 1st June, 1927; and

(ii) who has not from the 1st January, 1928, continued to be an officer of a Department or branch of a Department or which, in the opinion of the Board, will be removed to Canberra, or

(b) to any officer transferred from Canberra at any time in circumstances which, in the opinion of the Board, do not justify payment of allowance under this sub-regulation on re-transfer to Canberra.

1425.—Price 3d.

 

(2.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, a married officer shall include a widower with dependent children and any officer maintaining dependants whose circumstances, in the opinion of the Board, justify inclusion.

(3.) Unless otherwise determined by the Board, an officer appointed, transferred,  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 fractious of a pound equal to twenty-five per cent. of the amount charged the officer for his board and lodging but not exceeding Thirty-nine pounds per annum. Such allowance shall not be paid in addition to allowance payable under sub-regulation (1) of this regulation or under regulation 96 of those Regulations, but shall if greater be paid in lieu of that allowance.

(4.) Unless otherwise determined by the Board an officer appointed, transferred or promoted to in 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.

(b) who has purchased or built a house in Canberra prior to the commencement of this regulation, and at the commencement of this regulation is 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.) The payment of any allowance made with the approval of the Board prior to the commencement of this regulation, in purported exorcise of authority conferred by sub-regulation (4.) of regulation 97b contained in Statutory. Rules 1927, No. 22, is hereby authorized and, unless the Board otherwise determines, the payment of any such allowance shall be continued.

(6.) It shall be the duty of each officer who is in receipt of an allowance under the provisions of this regulation to notify the Chief Officer immediately in the event of any change occurring in his domestic conditions which affects his eligibility for payment of allowance or in his place of residence, or of any alteration in the amount paid by him for board and lodging.”

 

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