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

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 22.

 

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 on and from the 1st day of March, 1911, as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated the twentieth day of February, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

KING O’MALLEY,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

 

Regulation No. 104 made under the provisions of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 is repealed, and a new Regulation in the following terms is substituted therefor:—

104. The General Division shall be arranged in grades as set forth in the following schedule. Except where otherwise provided the limits of salary to be paid an officer occupying any office designated in such schedule shall be those prescribed therein in respect to such office, The Governor-General may from time to time, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner, create any office in the General Division not designated in the following schedule and fix the grade in which the officer occupying such position shall be placed or may raise the grading of any office, and thereupon the schedule shall be deemed to have been amended by the inclusion of the office so created or raised.

Schedule.

Grade.	Minimum Salary of Grade.	Increments.	Maximum Salary of Grade.	Office.	Remarks.
I.	£ 39	£ 13 8* (Annual)	£ 60	Telegraph Messenger Junior Mechanic........ Messenger................. Telephonist................	To be advanced to the next higher grade after one year’s service at the maximum

* Increments in the case of Telegraph Messengers conditional on passing a test in sending and receiving telegraph messages at the rate of twenty words per minute.

C. 3011.—Price 3d.

Schedule—continued.

Grade.	Minimum Salary of Grade.	Increments.	Maximum Salary of Grade.	Office.	Remarks.
II.	£ 72	£ 12 12 14 (Annual)	£ 110	Boy on Launch.................. Female Assistant (Printing) Lift Attendant.......................... Mail Boy........................... Messenger........................ Postal Note Sorter Telephonist....................... Assistant........................... Batteryman....................... Groom.............................. Junior Mechanic*.............. Labourer........................... Letter Carrier.................... Mail Driver....................... Office Cleaner.................. Typist............................... Watchman........................	Provided that an officer of 21 years of age or over may be paid salary at the rate of £110 per annum, but the payment of such salary under this provision shall not be taken into consideration for purposes of seniority or future advancement To be advanced to the next higher grade after two years’ service at maximum, provided that salary at the rate of £126 per annum may be paid officers 21 years of age or over, but the payment of such salary under this provision shall not be taken into consideration for purposes of seniority or future advancement
III.	..	..	120	Groom Labourer Office Cleaner Waterman Assistant........................... Batteryman....................... Blacksmith’s Striker.......... Boatman........................... Female Supervisor (Printing)	To be advanced to next higher grade after two years’ service in Grade III.

* Junior Mechanics may, after reaching the age of 21 years, and upon evidence by examination of efficiency, be advanced to Grade IV. as Mechanics.

 

Schedule—continued.

Grade.	Minimum Salary of Grade.	Increments.	Maximum Salary of Grade.	Office.	Remarks.
III.—cont.	£	£	£	Fireman............................ Junior Mechanic*............. Letter Carrier.................... Lineman........................... Magazine Storeman Mail Driver....................... Monitor............................ Pole Dresser..................... Searcher and Watchman Senior Messenger............. Storeman.......................... Typist............................... Postal Assistant.................	To be advanced to next higher grade after two years’ service in Grade III. To be advanced to next higher grade after one year’s service in Grade III.
IV.	132	6 (Annual)	138	Assistant Armourer Mechanic......................... Senior Assistant................ Senior Postal Assistant	To be advanced to next higher grade after one year’s service at maximum
		6 (Biennial)	Assistant........................... Batteryman....................... Blacksmith’s Striker Boatman........................... Caretaker.......................... Female Supervisor (Printing) Fireman............................ Junior Mechanic............... Letter Carrier.................... Lineman........................... Magazine Storeman Mail Driver....................... Monitor............................ Pole Dresser..................... Postal Assistant................. Searcher and Watchman Senior Messenger............. Storeman.......................... Typist...............................	After at least two years’ service at maximum may be granted a further increment of £6, and after an additional two years’ service a further increment of £6

* Junior Mechanics may, after reaching the age of 21 years, and upon evidence by examination of emergency, be advanced to Grade IV. as Mechanics.

 

Schedule—continued.

Grade.	Minimum Salary of Grade.	Increments.	Maximum Salary of Grade.	Office.	Remarks.
£	£	£
V.	144	6 (Annual)	156	Assistant Armourer Blacksmith Caretaker Carpenter Carpenter, Ship Coxswain Engine Driver Farrier Foreman Batteryman Foreman Labourer Foreman Storeman Foreman (Mail Branch) French Polisher Groom, in charge Lineman (in charge of office) Machinist Magazine Storeman Mason Mechanic Painter Painter and Writer Plumber and Gasfitter Saddler Saddler and Harnessmaker Sailmaker Senior Assistant Senior Lineman Senior Postal Assistant Ship Mailman Supervisor Waggon Repairer Wheeler and Carpenter
Sorter.............................	To be advanced to the next higher grade after one year’s service at maximum upon evidence by examination of efficiency

 

Schedule—continued.

Grade.	Minimum Salary of Grade.	Increments.	Maximum Salary of Grade.	Office.	Remarks.
VI.	£ 162	£ 6 (Annual)	£ 168	Armourer Caretaker Engine-driver and Fitter Foreman Batteryman Foreman Carpenter Foreman Painter Foreman Saddler Foreman Saddler and Harnessmaker Foreman Sailmaker Foreman Storeman (Defence) Line Foreman Plumber and Gasfitter Senior Machinist Sorter Supervisor
Senior Mechanic.............. Telephone Inspector	After one year’s service at maximum to advance to next higher grade
VII.	174	6 (Annual)	180	Armourer Caretaker Engine-driver and Fitter Foreman Carpenter Foreman Engine-driver Foreman Painter Ministerial Messenger Senior Mechanic Senior Sorter Shipping Patrol Officer Telephone Inspector Tipstaff

 

Schedule—continued.

Grade.	Minimum Salary of Grade.	Increments.	Maximum Salary of Grade.	Office.	Remarks.
VII.	£ 192	£ 6 (Annual)	£ 210	Armourer Assistant Supervisor of Publications Detective Exchange Foreman Foreman Mechanic Foreman Engine-driver Line Inspector Mechanician Telephone Inspector
Mail Officer...................	To be advanced to the next higher grade after one year’s service at maximum
IX.	216	6 (Annual)	228	Armourer Foreman Mechanic Line Inspector Mail Officer Mechanician Telephone Inspector
X.	..	..	240	Armourer Supervisor of Publications Foreman Mechanic Line Inspector Mechanician Telephone Inspector
XI.	252	..	276	Engineer (Electric Light) Line Inspector.................. Mechanician.................... Telephone Inspector	(No increments will be granted in respect of positions classified in this grade; the salary of the officer to be fixed at a sum within the limits of the grade

 

Schedule—continued.

Grade.	Minimum Salary of Grade.	Increments.	Maximum Salary of Grade.	Office.	Remarks.
XII.	282	..	348	Line Inspector.................. Mechanician.................... Overseer (Stamp Printing)	No increments will be granted in respect of positions classified in this grade; the salary of the officer to be fixed at a sum within the limits of the grade

Except where otherwise provided advancement from grade to grade beyond Grade V. shall be dependent upon the occurrence of vacancies in the higher grades, or upon alteration of the classification of an office, the duties of which have materially changed.

Notwithstanding anything contained in this Regulation, in any case where an increment to an officer would be deferred, owing to the provisions of the Regulation, beyond the date upon which it would have otherwise accrued, the Commissioner may grant the increment from such date.

The grade of an officer under the provisions of this Regulation shall be that corresponding to his designation, provided that any officer who is receiving at the date of this Regulation a salary less than the minimum amount of such grade, may be granted annual additions of salary of an amount to be determined by the Commissioner until the salary reaches such minimum.

Notwithstanding anything in the schedule contained in this Regulation in any case where the Governor-General, on the recommendation of the Commissioner, directs that an office shall be classified in any particular grade, the officer occupying such office may, subject to the approval of the Commissioner, be advanced to the minimum salary of such grade.

 

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