Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 143.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922 (FIFTEENTH 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 amendment of the Regulations, such amendment to come into operation as from the 1st July, 1924.

Dated this fourth day of September, 1924.

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

Approved in Executive Council this seventeenth day of September, 1924.

STRADBROKE,

Deputy of the 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Regulation 110 is repealed, and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

110. (1) This regulation shall apply only in determining the relative seniority of officers for the purposes of section 50 of the Act.

(2) The relative seniority of officers of the Fourth Division immediately prior to the commencement of this regulation shall not be varied so long as the officers remain in that Division.

(3) The relative seniority of officers of the Second and Third Divisions immediately prior to the commencement of this regulation shall not be varied so long as the officers remain in either of these Divisions.

(4) Subject to sub-regulation (6) of this regulation, the relative seniority of officers of the Fourth Division who enter that Division after the commencement of this regulation shall be determined by the respective dates of their entry into the Division.

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(5) The relative seniority of officers of the Second and Third Divisions who enter either of these Divisions after the commencement of this regulation shall be determined by the respective dates of their entry into the Second Division or into the Third Division, whichever of these Divisions they enter the earlier:

Provided that nothing contained in this sub-regulation shall vary the relative seniority of officers as determined in sub-regulation (3) of this regulation:

Provided further that if an officer enters the Third Division by transfer from the Fourth Division, service in the latter Division up to a maximum of two years shall be reckoned, for the purpose of determining seniority, as service in the Third Division.

(6) The seniority of any officer of the Fourth Division who was, immediately prior to his classification under section 27 of the Act, an officer of the Third Division, shall be determined in relation to officers of the Third and Fourth Divisions as if he had remained an officer of the Third Division.

(7) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, the Board may, if it thinks fit, specially determine the relative seniority of any officer who—

(i) is appointed under the provisions of section 42, 44 or 46 of the Act,

(ii) is removed from a Division to a lower Division, or

(iii) being a returned soldier is appointed or transferred to the Third Division as a result of passing an examination held prior to the commencement of this regulation.

(8) In any case not provided for in this regulation seniority shall be as determined by the Board.

(9) Nothing contained in this regulation shall affect the authority, for the purposes of management and control, vested in an officer by virtue of his temporary or permanent office.

 

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