Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULE

1925 No. 1.

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

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under theCommonwealth 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 as from the 1st January, 1925.

Dated this twenty-third day of December, 1924.

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

Approved in Executive Council this seventh day of January, 1925.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Ll. ATKINSON,

for Prime Minister.

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Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

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

Regulation 49 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“49. (1) Officers stationed at lighthouses may be granted by the Chief Officer twenty-four days’ leave of absence in any year, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, for recreation purposes.

(2) Officers whose duties cannot ordinarily be performed within usual regular hours, and to whom no compensation in time or money has been given for the extra time worked, may, on the approval of the Board, he granted twenty-four days’ leave of absence in any year for recreation purposes.

(3) Officers stationed in remote localities, or in localities where the climatic conditions are unusually severe, may be granted by the Chief Officer leave of absence for recreation exceeding eighteen days but not exceeding thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, in each year:

Provided that the Board may determine from time to time the localities to which this sub-regulation shall apply and this period of leave in respect of each year which may be granted to officers stationed in each particular locality.

C.9818.—Price 3d.

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in regulation forty-eight of these Regulations, Officers stationed in such localities as are determined by the Board from time to time may be allowed to accumulate recreation leave for (a) two consecutive years, or (b) three consecutive years.

(5) The Board may determine that officers stationed in remote localities shall be allowed reasonable time for travelling while on recreation leave in addition to recreation leave. The period of travelling time, and the conditions under which it maybe granted shall be such as are approved from time to time by the Board.

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