Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 112.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922 (NINTH 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 fifteenth day of July, 1924.

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

Approved in Executive Council this twenty-fourth day of July, 1924.

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.)

1. Regulation 37 is amended by adding at the end of the proviso thereto the following words:—

“or a presentation from fellow-officers or from a Public Service organization.”

2. Regulation 47 is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1) thereof the words ‘‘at the rate”.

3. Regulation 104 is amended—

(a) by inserting after the word “and” in the first line of the second column of the table the word “Chief”;

(b) by adding at the end of the positions and salaries set forth in the second and third columns opposite the words “Prime Minister’’ the following:—

‘‘Official Secretary to the Governor-General................................................ 650”;

(c) by adding at the end of the positions and salaries set forth in the second and third columns opposite the words “Home and Territories” the following:—

‘‘Director, Commonwealth Solar Observatory.............................................. 1,350”;

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(d) by adding at the end of the positions and salaries set forth in the second and third columns opposite the words “Attorney-General” the following:—

‘‘Principal Registrar, The High Court........................................................... 750”;

(e) by adding at the end of the positions and salaries set forth in the second and third columns opposite the word ‘‘Defence’’ the following:—

“Controller-General, Munitions Supply Board..............................................	1,650
Assistant Secretary...................................................................................	880”;

(f) by omitting from the second and third columns of the table opposite the word “Health” the following:—

“Victoria...............................................................................................	1,000
Queensland...........................................................................................	1,100”; and

(g) by adding at the end of the positions and salaries set forth in the second and third columns opposite the word “Health” the following:—

“Chief Quarantine Officer, Victoria, and Director of the Division of Marine Hygiene	1,000
Chief Quarantine Officer, Queensland, and Director of the Division of Tropical Hygiene	1,100
Director, Institute of Tropical Medicine.......................................................	1,000”.

Transfer from Fourth to Third Division.

4. After regulation 153 the following regulation is inserted:—

“153a. No officer shall be qualified for transfer from the Fourth to the Third Division unless he has passed the prescribed examination:

Provided that, in any case where the duties of a position require special skill or technical knowledge and no examination is prescribed for such position, the Board may, after inviting by notification in the Gazette applications for such position, transfer the applicant who, in the opinion of the Board, upon such evidence as it requires, is the most efficient for the discharge of the duties of the position to be filled.”

 

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