Crown Officers Act 1852 (SA)

No* 9,

An Act to ~eguhcrte the S/rlnries o f rertuin CZerks and Subordinate

Q&ws of the Crown in south Austrdin, and to eshddish I2ule.s

for u p-og-wssiue increase o f t h e sarm for. Length of service.

[Assented to 2nd Kovember, 1852.1

+REAS it is cspedient to regulate the rates of salary of offices, and to provide for a progressive increase of the same, in	Preamble.
W r i t i e ~ r o i v u in S r a i in certain
order to stin~ulate exertion, and to reward long and efGcicrlt services:
Be it tlierefore Enacted, by the Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia, by ancl i~ i t l l	Every pnblic officer
whose salary shall

the advice and consent of the Legislative not be less than f 100 per anncnn, not being

Council thercof, That Shnl and after the commencemelit of this head of a department,

Act, every public officer who s11a11 be then ser~ing, or shall &C., shall be clagsificd in one of three

be thereafter appointed to serve the Crown in South Australia, at classes.

any salary not less t l ~ n One Hundred Pounds per annuul, either in

an; subordinate civil office, or as a clerk, atid not being head of a

dejmtn~ent, or assistant or deputy lied of a department, shall be ranked in one of three classificntions, to be called respectively the first, the second, ailcl the third class: Providcd that notlling herein contained shall extend to or affcct any public officer whose preseut salary shall exceed the niaximum rate hereafter specified.

2. And he it Xnacted, That there shall be a minimum and a	There shall be a
minimum and 3

maximum rat'e of salary for tlw offcers in each class; and the	~naximurn rate r f
minimum rate of salary shall be the rate which, and no otlicr (except	6 y h y ill each c: l a s.
int the ease of officers appointed before the commencement of
thls Act as hereinafter provided), every such public officer appointed or promoted to either of the said classes shall be entitled
to receive, from and after the date of his appointment in such class,	The maximum rate
mtil such rate shall he increased, according to the provisions	shall not he exceeded
rereinnftcr contained; and the maxiiuurn rate of salary shall be	so lol~g as m p c~tlicer
shall ren~ain in th
mid to every such public officer entitled thereto in his resgective	mruc clwa

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class, and shall not be exceeded, whatever the length of service of the officer entitled thereto, so long as he shall remain in thc same class.

E ~ e v officer shall be

entitled to annual	3. And bc it Enacted, That every such public officer as aforesaid in the proportions hereinafter mentioned, according to his clasifica- tion and length of service; and such increase shall be annual and
progressive increase	shell be entitled to a progressive increase of salary, at the rates and
of sdiiry until he
attsin the maximum

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progressive, and shall eolltinue from year to ycar until Le shall cease to be in the public se'rvice, or shall be promoted into a higher class, or into any higher employment, or shall attain the maximum rate of salary of the class to which he belorlgs; and such increase shall commence from and after the expiration of the first year's service of any such public officer in tlie clilsg in which hc shall be appoiuted or promoted.

CI	Ratas of aalw,
annual increase, 4. And be it Enacted, That the rates of salary and the pro-
number of years' portionate increase which the said public offic~i+s, when classified,
fervice to entitle to
the maximum. shall be entitled to receive shall be as fbllows, that is to say-

Third Cl- For every Officer in the Third Class:

Minimum, &loo.

Maximum. & 150. The minimum aiznual rnte of salary slid be One Hundred "

Annual increase, f 10. Pounds.

The anaual rate of illcrease sll:nll be Tell Pouads.

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l h e maximum aunual rate of salary shall be Oile TIundred

and Fifty Pounds.

And tlle nunlber of ycnrs' service to entitle to tllc maximum

rate slnall be five ycars.

Second Class- For every Officer in the Second Class:

Minimum, f 160.

Maximum, f 210. Tlle uliniinunl alm~ml rate of salary sllall be Oi~e IIundred

Annual increase, f 10. and Sixty Pounds.

The annual rnte of incrcnse dmll be Ten Pounds.

The maximum annual rntc of and Ten Poturds. salary s l ~ d l be Two Hundred

And the nuinher of years' service to entitlc to the maximum

rate shall bc five pears.

First Clasa-

Minimum, £225, And for every Officer in the First Class:

Maximum, f 375. The n~iniinum annual rate of salary shall be Two Hundred

Annual increase, E15. and Twenty-five Ponads.

The ailnual rate of increase shall be Fifteen Pounds.

The maxiinunl annual rate of salary shall be Three Hundred

and Seventy-five Po~mds.

And the mmb& of years' service to elrtitle to the maximum

rate shall be ten years.

E v e v such puhlic

officer in office at the 5. And be it Enacted, That cvcry such public officer aforesaid

commencementofthis who On the ~ 0 ~ m e l. l ~ ~ n l ~ i l t of this Act s h d be in tlie service

eecording t o the clnsaificd of the Crown, shall be ranked in the class in which the rate of

wnounr of his salary, salary shall c~rrespond with thc rate which be ll.ay then be

receiving,

receiving, and shall be entitled to tho annual rate of inercase of and be entitlcd to

salary iu his class according to his classification from and after reckon commence- ment of increase of

the expiration of o11e year from the cornrnencemellt of t??is Act. salary one year after.

such increase to cease &hen he sliall have attained the maximu&

rate as before; and in every case in wllich the salary of any such

p b l i c officer $lull, on the commencemeut of this Act, be c v a l to the maximtm rate fixed for any class, such officer shall be

in the class next above.

And be it Enacted, Tlint this Act shd l not be coiistr~~ed apply to any public officer whose office s l d 1 oirly be of a temporary to This ~ c t shall not

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apply to temporary

nature, or who shall he only temporarily appointed or engaged in m y office, at wlmatcver rate of salary, nor to any Sergeant-Major, Sergeant, Corporal, or Conskzblc in the Police I;'orce, nor to ally M;le&enge:. or' Boatman, or person employed in &echanictll' or manual labor.

7. And be it Ei~tctcd, Thnt no pnblic nfiliccr appointed pro- service towards increase of pay to

visioilally to any office to w l~ i c l~ tllis Act is iiltcided to :~liply, s l d reckon from date of

reckon scrvice in RIIV c1:1ss'to~ards increase of sa1:~rv ~mt i l he shd1 confirmation of appointment.

be c o n i i m ~ ~ l in hi; appointnlent to sucll office; Lut any officer

already confinned in one grade of the public service of the Crown in the snicl l'mvince, and ljromotccl ~:rovision:dly to m o t h ~ r, may ~ c k o n service ton7;rr.ds incrc:;r;,c of salary in tllc claw in which he may be so proinotcd kom tl;e drrtc of su& provisioiial appointment.

9. And 1 - i ~ it Ifnnctrd, Tlwt tllis Act &all corniiicncc and take Cornrnenccment.

eficct fkom al;d ri'tcr t!ic first d;;y US 9:iru:u.y JOHN hIOEtPI3ETT, Speaker.

nest.

F. C. f3C;TNGT,ETON,

Clerk of the Legislative Council.

In tke name and 011 the kchalf of Her Majesty I assent to this Act.

11. E. F. YOUNG,

Lieutenant-Governor.

G overnnlent Tf o n ~ e, Adelaide,

2nd November, 1852.

ABELUIJX: X\ri~it~d by ~ U L ~ I V ~ I I ~, Ly W. C. Cos, Governnxnt Prmter, Vicloria-square.