Conduct and Management of Government Factories and the Employment of Persons under Section 63 Sub-sections 1 and 2 of the Defence Acts Regulations (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1914. No. 178.

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PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1912.

Regulations for the Conduct and Management of Government Factories and the Employment of Persons under Section 63, Sub-sections (1) and (2) of the Defence Acts—Regulations 65 (1), 65 (2), and 66 (2).

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Defence Act 1903-1912 should come, into immediate operation, and further, should be taken to have come into operation on and from the 1st day of March, 1914, and make the Regulations tocome into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this fourteenth day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE.

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Regulations for the Conduct and Management of Government Factories and the Employment of Persons under Section 63 Sub-sections (1) and (2) of the Defence Acts.

Amendments.

Regulation 65 (1) which reads—

“65. (1) Every officer shall be entitled, if of the age of 21 years, to a salary of £126 per annum,”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“65. (1) Every officer shall be entitled, if of the age of 21 years, to a salary of £110 per annum.”

Regulation 65 (2) which reads—

“65. (2) An officer whose salary has been increased to £126 per annum under this Regulation shall not be entitled to further increases until such time as he would have received that amount in the ordinary course of progression through the subdivisions of his class,”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“65. (2) An officer who has been paid salary at the rate of One hundred and ten pounds per annum by reason of having reached the age of 21 years, shall not be entitled to further increase of

 

salary until such time as he would have become eligible for such increase in the ordinary course of progression through the sub-divisions of his class, but upon the approval of the Secretary he may be granted an allowance at the rate of Sixteen pounds per annum, and such allowance may be increased at the end of each succeeding twelve months at the rate of Twelve pounds per annum. Officers of 22 years of age or over in receipt of salary of not less than £126 per annum, and not more than £150 per annum, may be paid on the approval of the Secretary an allowance not exceeding £12 per annum, and such allowance may be increased at the end of each succeeding twelve months by an amount not exceeding £12 per annum, provided that the total amount payable to an officer by way of salary with allowance under this Regulation shall not exceed One hundred and fifty-six pounds per annum.”

Regulation 66 (2) which reads—

“66. (2) Increments shall be payable from the first day of the month following the date upon which they accrue,”

is cancelled, and the following substituted therefor:—

“66. (2) Increments shall be payable from the first day of the month following the date they accrue, provided that any increase of salary accruing through an officer reaching twenty-one years of age shall be paid from the officer’s twenty-first birthday.

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