Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 46.

 

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 amendments of the Regulations, such amendments to come into operation on and from the sixteenth day of April, 1931.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of April, 1931.

W. J. CLEMENS, Acting Chairman,

Board of Commissioners.

Approved in Executive Council this twenty-ninth day of April, 1931.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

J. H. SCULLIN

Prime Minister.

 

Amendments of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

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

1. Regulation 106a is amended—

(a) by deleting from paragraph (iii) of sub-regulation (1) the words and figures “receiving salary not exceeding £600 per annum”.

(b) by deleting from sub-regulation (1) the words and figures—

“Provided that no increase shall be granted under this sub-regulation which would raise the salary of any officer to an amount exceeding £600 per annum.”

(c) by repealing sub-regulations (3) and (4).

2. After Regulation 106a the following regulations are inserted:—

Temporary decreases.

“106aa. Notwithstanding anything contained in Regulations 104 to 106a (inclusive) of these Regulations, salaries payable in pursuance of the provisions of those Regulations shall, subject to the next succeeding Regulation, be varied in the following manner on and from the sixteenth day of April, 1931, up to and including the thirtieth day of June, 1931—

(i) In the case of officers under 21 years of age—by decrease at the rate of £9 per annum;

(ii) In the case of adult female officers—by decrease at the rate of £12 per annum; and

(iii) In the case of adult male officers—by decrease at the rate of £15 per annum.”

1032.—Price 3d.

 

Temporary decreases of salaries affected by Income Tax (Salaries) Act.

“106ab. Where any periodical payment of the salary of an officer would, if no decrease in pursuance of Regulation 106a or 106aa of these Regulations were effected, be of such amount as would be subject, under the Income Tax (Salaries) Assessment Act 1930 and the Income Tax (Salaries) Act 1930 or under any Acts amending or in substitution for those Acts, to a deduction by way of income tax—

(a) of not less than ten per centum of that payment—no decrease in respect of that payment shall be made under either of those regulations; and

(b) of less than ten per centum of that payment—no decrease shall be made under either of those regulations in respect of that payment except—

(i) such amount as would, together with the deduction which would be so made by way of income tax, reduce the payment by ten per centum; or

(ii) the amount by which the payment would, except for this Regulation, have been decreased,

whichever is the less.”

 

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