Dairy Produce Export Control (Staff) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1948. No..

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DAIRY PRODUCE EXPORT CONTROL ACT 1924-1947 *

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Dairy Produce Export Control Act 1924-1947.

Dated this fifteenth day of September, 1948.

W.J. McKell

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Commerce and Agriculture.

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Amendments of the Dairy Produce Export Control (Staff)

 Regulations. 

definitions.

1. Regulation 3 of the Dairy Produce Export Control (Staff) Regulations is amended by inserting after the definition of “ officer ” the following definitions:—

“ ‘organization ’ means an organization registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1947 ;

‘ returned soldier ’ has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1947 ;

‘ standard salary ’ shall be deemed to be the salary payable to an officer in accordance with the provisions of sub-regulations (1) to (4) (inclusive) of regulation 5 of these Regulations ;

Salaries of officers.

2. Regulation 5 of the Dairy Produce Export Control (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (6.).

3. Regulation 8 ofthe Dairy Produce Export Control (Staff) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead :—

overtime.

 “8.—(1.) The Secretary may, if satisfied as to the necessity therefor, authorize the working of overtime by officers.

(2.)Overtime shall be recorded and shall be paid for subject to, and in accordance with, the provisions of these Regulations.

(3.)The hourly rate of overtime shall be based on time and a half, and shall be calculated in accordance with the following formula :—

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1948.

  Statutory Rules 1938, No. 57, as amended by Statutory Rules 1938, No. 118; 1940, No. 116 ; 1941, No. 156 ; 1942, Nos. 192 and 530; and 1948, Nos. 1 and 48.

2700.—Price 3d.  8/18.8.1948.

(4.)The hourly rate of pay for overtime shall be computed to two decimal points of a penny with a minimum rate of One shilling per hour, and a maximum rate of Eight shillings and sixpence per hour. Overtime shall be calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour of the total amount of overtime to be claimed in each fortnightly pay period.

(5.) Payment for overtime shall be made in respect of time worked in excess of forty hours per week.

(6.)Officers in receipt of salary exceeding a standard salary of Five hundred and four pounds per annum shall not be entitled to receive payment for overtime.

(7.)Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulations (4.), (5.)and (6.)of this regulation, an officer who is a member of an organization or a returned soldier shall be paid for overtime in accordance with the following provisions :—

(a) The minimum rate for overtime shall be Two shillings per hour and the maximum rate Eight shillings and sixpence per hour.

(b)Payment for overtime shall be made in respect of time worked in excess of thirty-eight hours per week.

(c) Officers in receipt of a salary exceeding a standard salary of Seven hundred and sixty-eight pounds per annum in the case of males and Seven hundred and six pounds per annum in the case of females shall not be entitled to receive payment for overtime.

(d)The maximum amount payable for overtime worked during a fortnightly pay period shall not exceed the difference between the officer’s salary, including higher duties allowance and other allowances in the nature of salary, for the full fortnightly pay period and the fortnightly equivalent of an amount calculated on the current equivalent of a standard salary of Seven hundred and sixty-eight pounds per annum in the case of males and Seven hundred and six pounds per annum in the case of females: Provided that payment for duty on Sundays and holidays shall be excluded in determining the amount payable for overtime.

(8.) Where, during the period commencing on the eighth day of May, 1947,and ending on the date on which this regulation came into operation, an officer whose salary did not exceed a standard salary of Five hundred and four pounds per annum worked overtime, he shall be entitled to receive payment for overtime so worked in accordance with the provisions of the regulation for which this regulation is substituted.”.

Duty on holidays.

4.—(1.) Regulation 7aof the Dairy Produce Export Control (Staff) Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting at the end of paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (2.) the following proviso :—

“Provided that the maximum hourly rate of payment shall be computed on the current equivalent of a standard salary of Four hundred and fifty pounds per annum.”;

 

(b)by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the symbol and figures “£450” and inserting in their stead the words “Five hundred and four pounds standard salary” ; and

(c) by inserting after sub-regulation (4.) the following sub regulation :—

“(5.) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-regulations (2.) and (4.) of this regulation, an officer who is a member of an organization or a returned soldier, and is in receipt of a salary not exceeding a standard salary of Six hundred and twelve pounds per annum in the case of males and Five hundred and fifty pounds per annum in the case of females, shall be entitled to receive payment for holiday duty.”.

(2.) The amendment effected by paragraph (b)of the last preceding sub-regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eighth day of May, 1947.

Recreation leave.

5. Regulation 11 of the Dairy Produce Export Control (Staff) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation :—

“(2.) Where the Board certifies that, owing to circumstances attributable to the war, it was not practicable to grant recreation leave to an officer for the whole or any portion of any period or periods for which recreation leave could have been granted at any time between the third day of September, 1939, and the thirty-first day of December, 1945, payment may be made to that officer, at such rates and under such conditions as the Minister determines, in respect of such leave as was not granted.”.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.