Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 96.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1924 (TWENTY-FIRST AMENDMENT 1925).

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 amendment of the Regulations, such amendment to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of May, 1925.

C. B. B. White, Chairman,	Board of Commissioners.
W. J. Skewes,

Approved in Executive Council this tenth day of June, 1925.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. W. C. MARR,

for Prime Minister.

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Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

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

Regulation 156 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“156. (1) Examinations for admission to the Service in the Third Division, or for the transfer of officers to or within that Division may be arranged by the Board in conjunction with public examinations held by a University or other public examining body in any State.

(2) The examinations shall be as follows:—

(a) A written examination in such subjects included in the public examinations, and such other additional subjects as the Board determines; and

(b) In such cases as the Board determines, a personal examination of candidates who are successful at the written examination to satisfy the Board of their aptitude and suitability for the performance of the duties of the position for which they are examined.

(3) Where a candidate is required to submit to the examination prescribed in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) of this regulation he shall not be qualified for appointment or transfer unless he passes that examination.

(4) The examination prescribed in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) of this regulation shall be competitive and shall determine the order of merit of candidates who qualify for appointment or transfer.

(5) The maximum marks obtainable at the written examination and the minimum marks to be obtained to pass that examination shall be such as the Board notifies in the Gazette.

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