Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 96.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922 (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 June, 1924.

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

Approved in Executive Council this 26th day of June 1924.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Prime Minister.

 

Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

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

Regulation 106 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, upon the classification, in pursuance of section 27 of the Act, of any officers of the Fourth Division employed in any of the sections and offices specified in the following tables, those officers, and any officers subsequently promoted, appointed or transferred to those sections and offices, shall be paid salaries in accordance with the scales or amounts shown in those

C.8735.—Price 3d.

 

tables opposite the respective offices of the officers so classified, promoted, appointed, or transferred:—

Table C.

Section—Mail Branch, Postmaster-General’s Department.

Office.	Salary.			Remarks.
	Minimum.	Maximum.	Increments (Amount).
£	£	£
Assistant (Female)......................	156	168	6	Officers employed in delivery of correspondence, Poste Restante, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
„ „ .................	102	180	6	Officers employed in Dead Letter Offices, and officers engaged in Brisbane in Poste Restante duties combined with relieving as Stamp Sellers
„ „ .................	174	192	6	Officers employed at Registration Counter, Perth
„ „ .................	186	204	6	Officers engaged wholly on stamp sales, duties and at the Inquiry Counter, Brisbane, and, in Melbourne, in the Parcels Post
Canvas Worker...........................	..	*	..
Canvas Worker (in charge) Mail Officer, Grade 1—	..	*	..	Subject to passing such test in efficiency for the performances of Mail Branch duties as may be notified by the Board from time to time, officers will be advanced from grade to grade from date approved in classification or after twelve months’ service at the maximum salary of the lower grade
Under 17 years......................	..	72	..
At 17 years............................	..	90	..
At 18 years............................	..	102	..
At 19 years............................	..	120	..
At 20 years............................	..	144	..
Adult.......................................	202	234	8
Mail Officer, Grade 2................	240	252	6
Mail Officer, Grade 3................	258	276	6
Postman—
Under 17 years......................	..	72	..
At 17 years............................	..	90	..
At 18 years............................	..	102	..
At 19 years............................	..	120	..
At 20 years............................	..	144	..
Adult.......................................	202	234	8
Senior Mail Officer, Grade 1	290	314	12
Senior Mail Officer, Grade 2	290	338	12

* Salary as prescribed in Table B of Regulation 106 subject to variation as prescribed in sub-regulation (3).

Table D.

Section—Such Sections as are from time to time classified in pursuance of section 27 of the Act.

Office.	Salary.			Remarks.
	Minimum.	Maximum.	Increments (Amount).
£	£	£
Lift Attendant.............................	198	218	l of 8
2 of 6
Office Cleaner (Male)................	198	218	1 of 8
2 of 6

 

Table D—continued.

Office.	Salary.			Remarks.
	Minimum.	Maximum.	Increments (Annual).
£	£	£
Typist Female), Grade 1—	Advancement beyond £186 to be subject to evidence to the satisfaction of the Board of efficiency as a shorthand writer at rate of 120 words a minute, ability to transcribe or type letters, &c., with due regard to punctuation and form, and to employment on duties requiring such qualifications or on work regarded by the Board as of equal standard
Under 18 years......................		..	90	..
At 18 years............................		..	102	..
At 19 years............................		..	120	..
At 20 years............................		..	144	..
Adult.......................................		162	204	3 of 8
3 of 6
Typist (Female), Grade 2		210	220	10	Inclusion in grade to be dependent upon possession of qualifications prescribed for advancement beyond £186 and, in addition, upon employment in the supervision of at least three typists or in such duties of a secretarial or correspondence character or work of like standard as in the opinion of the Board warrants classification in Grade 2
Typist (Female), Grade 3	210	240	10	Inclusion in grade to be dependent upon efficiency as a shorthand writer at rate of not less than 140 words a minute and the regular utilization of such qualification in the reporting of deputations, inquiries, &c., to such extent as in the opinion of the Board warrants inclusion in Grade 3
Watchman...................................	198	218	1 of 8
2 of 6

(5) Where the Commonwealth Statistician notifies in the Gazette the index-number ascertained in respect of food, groceries, and housing combined, for the six capital cities of the Commonwealth for the twelve months preceding the 1st day of April in any year, and that index-number is less than 1620, or more than 1719, salary payable in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation shall be varied in the following manner:—

(a) In the cases of adult male officers receiving salary not exceeding £348, by increase or decrease of £6 in respect of each 50 points or portion thereof by which, respectively, the index-number exceeds 1719 or is less than 1620.

(b) In the cases of adult male officers receiving salary exceeding £348 but not exceeding £600, by increase or decrease of £12 in respect of each 100 points or portion thereof (exceeding 50 points) by which, respectively, the index-number exceeds 1719 or is less than 1620.

 

(c) In the cases of adult female officers, by increase or decrease of £9 in respect of each 100 points or portion thereof (exceeding 50 points) by which, respectively, the index-number exceeds 1719 or is less than 1620.

(d) In the cases of officers under 21 years of age, by increase or decrease of £6 in respect of each 100 points or portion thereof (exceeding 50 points) by which, respectively the index-number exceeds 1719 or is less than 1620.

(6) Any variation effected in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation shall take effect on the 1st day of July next following the notification, in the Gazette of the index-number, and shall continue in force for a period of twelve months.

 

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