Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1947. No. 146.

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REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1947.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1947, 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 third day of October, 1947.

W.E. DUNK,

Chairman.

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I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulation.

Dated this fifteenth day of October, 1947.

W. J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN J. DEDMAN

for Prime Minister.

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Amendment of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations. 

Regulation 34 of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“34. An officer shall not—

Public comment on administration.

(a) use for any purpose, other than for the discharge of his official duties, information gained by or conveyed to him through his connexion with the Service; or

(b) publicly comment upon any administrative action or upon the administration of any Department:

Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall prevent an officer resident in any Territory within the Commonwealth from publicly commenting upon civic affairs relating to that Territory”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th October, 1947.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 44, 72, 78 and 119; 1936, Nos. 5, 55, 76, 88, 106, 116, 143 and 154; 1937, Nos. 11, 25, 54 60, 74, 78, 87, 100, 103 and 118; 1938, Nos. 35, 41, 79, 105, 110 and 113; 1939, Nos. 4, 36, 52, 62, 65, 105, 154, 167 and 168; 1940, Nos. 23, 74, 110, 143 and 247;1941, Nos. 36, 42, 127, 148, 158, 168, 191, 224, 284 and 310; 1942, Nos. 45, 167, 174 182, 225, 320, 465, 466 and 552; 1943, Nos. 271, 272 and 301; 1944, Nos. 6, 132, 138 and 143; 1945, Nos. 15, 35, 115, 118 and 124; 1940, Nos. 22, 68, 120. 124 and 153; and 1947, Nos. 1, 2, 122, 123 and 134.

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By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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