Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 60.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1936.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1936, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the said Act, find subject to the approval of the Governor-General, hereby makes the following Regulation.

Dated this thirty-first day of May, 1937.

F.G. THORPE,

Commissioner.

Approved in Executive Council this ninth day of June, 1937.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 for Acting Prime Minister.

 

Amendments of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations. 

Test of qualifications for certain offices.

Regulation 112a of the Commonwealth Public Service Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

“(5.) An officer who occupies, or has occupied, the position of Examiner of Patents (£354-£510) shall not, after the first day of January, 1939, be promoted to the position of Examiner of Patents, Grade 2, unless—

(a) he has passed an examination conducted by, or with the approval of, the Board in the Patent Case Law of Great Britain in accordance with a syllabus approved by the Board and notified in the Gazette; or

(b)he has passed an examination conducted by the Board of Examiners of Patent Attorneys in the subjects referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of regulation 178 of the Patents Regulations, 1912.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1937.

  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, and 54.

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(6.) An officer who has not occupied the position of Examiner of Patents (£354-£510), shall not be promoted to the position of Examiner of Patents, Grade 2, unless he has passed the examination prescribed by regulation 105a of these Regulations for the advancement of an Examiner of Patents, Grade 1, beyond £402 per annum, and in addition has passed an examination conducted by, or with the approval of, the Board in the Patent Case Law of Great Britain in accordance with the syllabus approved by the Board and notified in the Gazette.”

  

By Authority: L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.