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

STATUTORY RULES.

1908. No. 92.

 

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS 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 Regulations under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as “Provisional Regulations.”

Dated this thirteenth day of August, One thousand nine hundred and eight.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s command,

J. H. KEATING,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

 

Amendment of Public Service Regulation 264.

Regulation 264, made under the provisions of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902, is repealed, and a new Regulation, in the following terms, is made in lieu thereof:—

264. The Board of Inquiry shall consist of—

(a) an officer of the Department in which the accused officer is employed;

(b) an officer of any other Commonwealth Department;

(c) the representative of the division to which the accused officer belongs.

Provided that, instead of the officers specified in paragraphs (a) and (b), or either of them, the Chief Officer, with the approval of a Public Service Inspector, may appoint any person or persons he may deem desirable, whether connected with the Commonwealth Public Service or not. Any two members of a Board of Inquiry may exercise all the powers of such Board.

C.9944.–Price 3d.

Amendment of Public Service Regulation 276a.

Regulation 276a, made under the provisions of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902, is repealed, and a new Regulation, in the following terms, made in lieu thereof:—

276a. A Board of Inquiry, under section 65 of the Act, for the investigation of the question of an officer’s unfitness to discharge, or incapability of discharging, the duties of his office, shall consist of—

(a) an officer (to be nominated by the Commissioner) of the Department in which the officer is employed;

(b) an officer (to be nominated by the Commissioner) of any other Department; and

(c) the representative of the division to which the officer whose unfitness or incapability is to be investigated belongs; or, where in any State there is no representative of the division to which the officer belongs, or where the officer whose unfitness or incapability is to be investigated is himself the representative of the division to which he belongs, an officer to be nominated by the Commissioner.

Provided that in any case where it appears to the Commissioner that the proper investigation of the subject-matter of the inquiry calls for special technical or other knowledge on the part of the members of the Board of Inquiry, the Commissioner may, in lieu of any one or more of the officers specified above, nominate any one or more persons who, in his opinion, possess the special knowledge required to be a member or members of the Board of Inquiry. Any two members of a Board of Inquiry may exercise all the powers of such Board.

 

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