Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 174.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922 (NINETEENTH AMENDMENT, 1924).

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922, 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 tenth day of November, 1924.

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

Approved in Executive Council this nineteenth day of November, 1924.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Ll. ATKINSON,

for Prime Minister.

 

Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

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

Regulation 51 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Leave for Defence purposes.

“51. (1) Leave of absence for the purpose of attending the annual training prescribed in Part XII. of the Defence Act 1903-1918 and of attending one school, class or course of instruction annually may be granted by the Chief Officer to officers who are members of the Naval or Military Citizen Forces, whether they be serving voluntarily or as trainees. Evidence of the necessity for such attendance shall be furnished before the grant of leave and a certificate of attendance shall be produced to the Chief Officer at the conclusion of the camp, school, class or course of instruction.

(2) Leave of absence granted in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation may, at the option of the officer, be deducted from recreation leave due and, in respect of the period so deducted, shall be granted with full pay. If not so deducted, it shall be granted without pay unless the amount of pay which the officer would have received if he had been on duty exceeds the amount of pay, excluding pay for Sundays and holidays, received as a member of the Naval or Military Citizen Forces, in which case he shall be paid the difference.

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(3) Leave of absence with full pay may be granted by the Chief Officer—

(i) to officers who are Senior Cadets to perform the training required by section 127 of the Defence Act 1903-1918 which the officers are required to perform within ordinary hours of duty; and

(ii) to officers who are serving voluntarily in cadet units for the purpose of attending cadet training, on the production of evidence to the Chief Officer that attendance is necessary and that the officers are duly enrolled members of those units.

(4) Sub-regulations (1), (2) and (3) of this regulation shall apply to temporary employees:

Provided that where the employee’s services are not further required leave shall only be granted to the date on which he would ordinarily have ceased duty.

(5) Leave of absence shall not be granted under this regulation in respect of any period of training required of an officer for failure to become efficient as a trainee or while he is undergoing, as a trainee, detention or training for an offence.”

Regulation 104 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“104. (1) An officer of the Second Division occupying an office specified in the following table shall be paid salary in accordance with the scale or amount specified in the table opposite the office occupied by him:—

Department.	Office.	Salary.		Increments (Annual)
					Minimum.	Maximum.
		£	£				£
		Home and Territories	Commonwealth Statistician and Actuary		1,000	1,200	50
Chief Electoral Officer............................	900		1,000	50
Director (Commonwealth Meteorologist)	800		900	25
Attorney-General	Crown Solicitor......................................	1,200	1,400	50
	Assistant Secretary and Assistant Parliamentary Draftsman	1,000	1,200	50
	Assistant Crown Solicitor........................	900	1,100	50
	Deputy Crown Solicitor..........................	900	1,000	50
	Director (Investigation Branch) ...............	750	850	25
	Commissioner of Patents, Registrar of Trade Marks and Registrar of Designs	950	1,100	50
	Principal Registrar, The High Court	750	850	25
Trade and Customs	Collector—
	New South Wales..............................	1,100	1,250	50
	Victoria.............................................	1,000	1,100	50
	Queensland........................................	850	950	25
	South Australia..................................	800	900	25
	Western Australia..............................	750	850	25
	Tasmania...........................................	650	700	25

 

(2) Any officer of the Second Division occupying an office not specified in the preceding table shall, pending the classification of his office in pursuance of section 27 of the Act, continue to receive his present salary:

Provided that the Permanent Head may, from time to time, supplement that salary by the grant of such increments as are determined by the Board.”

Regulation 141e is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2) thereof the word “fourteen” and inserting in its stead the word “twenty-one”; and

(b) by omitting sub-regulation (5) thereof and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(5) If, through inadvertence, the name of an officer has been omitted from the list prepared pursuant to regulation 141b of these Regulations, the Returning Officer shall, at the written request of the Chief Officer, add the name to the list and issue a ballot-paper to the officer.”

Delegation by Chief Officer.

After regulation 141x the following regulation is inserted:—

“141y. (1) The Chief Officer may, by writing under his hand delegate to any officer in a State all or any of his powers and functions under this part of these Regulations (except this power of delegation) so that the delegated powers and functions may be exercised by the delegate as fully and effectually as by the Chief Officer.

(2) Every delegation under this regulation shall be revocable in writing at will, and no delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power or function by the Chief Officer.

Regulation 179 is amended by inserting, in sub-regulation (2) thereof, after the word “Board”, the words “, a Public Service Inspector or the Chief Officer of a Department.

 

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