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

STATUTORY RULES.

1906. No. 100.

 

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, relating to Boards of Inquiry, should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulation to come into operation forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.

Dated this 13th day of November, One thousand nine hundred and six.

NORTHCOTE,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

SAMUEL MAUGER,

For Minister of State for Home Affairs.

 

The Public Service Regulations are amended by adding thereto in Chapter XII. thereof, the following Regulation:—

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 First or Second Class of the Clerical Division, or of Class A, B, or C of the Professional Division, in the Department in which the officer is employed;

(b) an officer (to be nominated by the Commissioner) of any one of the aforesaid classes in 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 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.

 

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

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