Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1926. No. 131.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1924 (THIRTY-SEVENTH AMENDMENT, 1926).

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1924, 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 forthwith.

Dated this ninth day of September, 1926.

C. B. B. White, Chairman,

W. J. Skewes,

J. P. McGlinn,

Board of Commissioners,

Approved in Executive Council this fifteenth day of September, 1926.

SOMERS,

Deputy of the Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

for Acting Prime Minister,

Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923, No. 93, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 110 is amended by omitting sub-regulation (7) thereof and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(7) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, the Board may, if it thinks fit, specially determine the relative seniority of any officer who—

(i) is appointed under the provisions of section 42, 44 or 46 of the Act;

(ii) is removed from a Division to a lower Division;

(iii) is transferred or promoted from a position as Postmaster, Fourth Division, to an office in the Third Division; or

(iv) being a returned soldier is appointed or transferred to the Third Division as a result of passing an examination held prior to the commencement of this regulation.”

C.14027.—Price 3d.

After regulation 119 the following regulation is inserted:—

“119a. (1) In the case of any officer who, at the date of his compulsory transfer with his Department to Canberra, has reached the age of sixty years and who retires or is retired from the Service within three years from that date, there shall be payable to the officer the cost of the conveyance of himself and his family, together with furniture and household effects to the place to which he desires to proceed, but not exceeding in any event the cost of the conveyance of the officer and his family, together with furniture and effects, between Canberra and his former home station.

(2) In the event of the death of any such officer within three years of the date of his transfer, the cost of conveyance of his dependants, with furniture and household effects, as provided by the preceding sub-regulation, may be paid by the Department.”

 

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