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

statutory rules.

1907. No. 108.

 

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 forthwith as a “Provisional Regulation.”

Dated this 11th day of October, One thousand nine hundred and seven.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. H. KEATING,

Minister of State for Home Affairs.

 

Public Service Regulation 142is repealed, and the following new Regulation substituted therefor:—

Transfers from the General to the Professional or Clerical Division of Officers who have qualified by passing the prescribed examination, or are eligible by virtue of qualifications preserved to them by their Classification, shall be made in accordance with relative fitness for the duties to be performed. An officer, upon transfer, shall continue to receive the salary paid to him in the General Division, provided that, if the Commissioner so determine, such Officer may be granted, either upon transfer, or at a later date to be fixed, the salary of the subdivision next above that corresponding to the salary received by him in the General Division, such salary not being the minimum salary payable under Section 25 of the Act.

The foregoing provisions shall likewise apply to Officers transferred from the General Division prior to the passing of this Regulation, provided they have received no increase of salary since transfer.

The seniority of Officers transferred from the General Division shall be determined by subdivision of class, and date of entrance to such subdivision.

 

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

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