Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 120.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1946.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1946, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the said Act, and subject to the approval of His Royal Highness the Governor-General, hereby makes the following Regulations.

Dated this fifth day of July, 1946.

F. G. THORPE,

Commissioner.

 

I, the Governor-General in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulations.

Dated this seventeenth day of July, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

JOHN J. DEDMAN

for Prime Minister.

 

Amendments of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations. 

Seniority.

1.Regulation 110 of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulations (2.), (3.) and (4.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(3.) The relative seniority of officers of the Fourth Division shall be determined by the respective dates of their appointment to the Commonwealth Service.

“(4.) The relative seniority of officers of the Second and Third Divisions whose entry into either of those divisions was prior to the first day of July, 1924, shall be determined by the respective dates of their appointment to the Commonwealth Service”;

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 18th July, 1946.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 44, 72, 78 and 119; 1936, Nos. 5, 55, 76, 88, 106, 116, 143 and 154; 1937, Nos. 11, 25, 54, 60, 74, 78, 87, 100, 103 and 118; 1938, Nos. 35, 41, 79, 105, 110 and 113; 1939, Nos. 4, 36, 52, 62, 65, 105, 131, 167 and 168; 1940, Nos. 23, 74, 110, 143 and 247; 1941, Nos. 36, 42, 127, 148, 158, 168, 191, 224, 284 and 310; 1942, Nos. 45, 167, 174, 182, 225, 320, 465, 466 and 552; 1943, Nos. 271, 272 and 301; 1944, Nos. 6, 132, 138 and 143; and 1945, Nos. 15, 35, 115, 118 and 124; and 1946, Nos. 22 and 68.

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(b) by omitting the first proviso to sub-regulation (5.);

(c) by omitting from the second proviso to that sub-regulation the word- " further";

(d) by omitting sub-regulation (6.); and

(e) by omitting paragraph (i) of sub-regulation (7.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:-

" (i) is appointed under the provisions of section 42, 44. 46. 81c or 81N of the Act:".

 

2.-(1.) After regulation 110 of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations, the following regulation is inserted :-

" 110A. Notwithstanding anything contained in the last Preceding regulation, the relative seniority of officers of the Fourth Division who have qualified for promotion as Senior Technician shall, for the purposes of promotion under section 50 of the Act and of temporary transfer under regulation 116 of these Regulations to an office in the Postmaster-General's Department of Supervising Technician in any grade, or of Supervisor, Workshops, be determined by the respective dates upon which the officers qualified for promotion as Senior Technician:

Provided that-

(a) where two or more officers qualified for promotion as Senior Technician on the same date, the relative seniority of those officers shall be determined by the respective dates of their advancement or appointment as Technician;

(b) where two or more officers qualified for promotion as Senior Technician on the sam date, and were advanced or appointed as Technician on the same date, the relative seniority of those officers immediately prior to the date upon which they qualified for promotion as Senior Technician shall not be varied; and

(c) nothing contained in this regulation shall vary the relative, seniority as at the thirtieth day of June, 1946, of officers of the Fourth Division who were promoted as Senior Technician prior to the first day of July, 1924.".

(2.) This regulation shall come into operation on the first day of' August, 1946.