Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 38.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATION UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1902.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulation under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation as from 1st May. 1906. as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this seventeenth day of May, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LITTLETON ERNEST GROOM.

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

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Telegraph Messengers.

Regulation 199 of the Public Service Regulations is amended to read as follows:—

199. Every applicant for employment as telegraph messenger must be between the ages of thirteen and fifteen years at date of examination. Every applicant nominated for appointment as telegraph messenger must be not less than thirteen nor more than fifteen years of age at his last birthday previous to appointment, and must cease to be so employed when he attains the age of eighteen years, unless in the meantime he has been transferred or promoted to some other position in the service for which he has qualified by passing the required examination. Provided, however, that no person shall be appointed as telegraph messenger in the States of Victoria or Western Australia under the age of fourteen years, unless, in the case of the first-mentioned State, he can if required produce a certificate from the Education Department of Victoria of having attained the standard of education required by the Education Acts of that State.

 

By Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.

C 5226.—Price 3d.