Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1925. No. 115.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1924.

[TWENTY-NINTH 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 as from the 1st July, 1924.

Dated this sixth day of July, 1925.

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

Approved in Executive Council this eighth day of July, 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 105a is amended by inserting after paragraph (j) in sub-regulation (1) the following additional paragraphs.—

(k) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (i) of this sub-regulation, an officer occupying, in the Meteorological Branch, Department of Home and Territories, an office of Meteorological Assistant, Grade 1, shall not be advanced in salary beyond £276 per annum unless—

(1) he has been employed for three years on meteorological duties, and/or has given evidence to the satisfaction of the Board of aptitude for meteorological work; and

(2) he has furnished evidence to the satisfaction of the Board that—

(i) he is engaged upon a course of study in Mathematics and/or Physics of the standard of a University degree course and is making satisfactory progress therein, or

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(ii) he has completed a course of study equivalent to the Standard of a third-year University course in Mathematics and/or Physics.

On compliance with conditions (1) and (2) (i) the officer may advance by annual increments to a maximum of £312 per annum. On compliance with conditions (1) and (2) and (ii) the officer shall, if an adult, be paid not less than £288 per annum and may advance to a maximum of £348 per annum.

(l) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (k) of this sub regulation, any officer assigned in the classification under section 27 of the Act to a position of Meteorological Assistant, Grade 1, Department of Home and Territories, with salary less than £300 per annum, may advance by annual increments to £300 per annum, but shall only be eligible for advancement beyond that amount under the conditions prescribed for the advancement of officers in paragraph (k) of this sub-regulation,

(m) An officer occupying, in the Meteorological Branch, Department of Home and Territories, an office of Meteorologist (Research), shall not be advanced in salary beyond £396 per annum except upon evidence to the satisfaction of the Board that—

(i) he possesses the necessary aptitude and capacity for conducting research work and is rendering efficient service, and

(ii) he is a graduate of a recognized University with major work in Mathematics and Physics, or is engaged in a degree course with the object of so graduating.

(n) An officer occupying, in the Meteorological Branch, Department of Home and Territories, an office of Meteorologist (Research), shall not be advanced in salary beyond £450 per annum except upon evidence to the satisfaction of the Board that he is a graduate of a recognized University with major work in Mathematics and Physics.

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