Employment of Persons in a Civil Capacity in Connexion with the Department of Defence Under Section 63 Sub-sections 1 and 2 of the Defence Act Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1917. No. 209.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1915.

Regulations for the Employment of Persons in a Civil Capacity in Connexion with the Department of Defence under Section 63, Sub-sections 1 and 2 of the Defence Act—Regulation 23 (1)—Amendment.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Defence Act 1903-1915 to come into operation on and from the 1st July, 1917.

Dated this twenty-second day of August One thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

G. F. PEARCE,

Minister of State for Defence.

 

Regulations for the Employment of Persons in a Civil Capacity in Connexion with the Department of Defence under Section 63, Sub-sections 1 and 2 of the Defence Act.

Amendment.

Statutory Rules 1917, No. 150, is cancelled and the following substituted therefor:—

Cancel Regulation 23 (1) and substitute the following:—

“23. (1) Overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time and a half, and the hourly rate shall be ascertained as under:—

The minimum rate of payment shall be 1s. per hour. A fraction of a penny in the hourly rate shall not be regarded in computing overtime payment unless it exceeds a halfpenny when one penny shall be allowed in lieu of the fraction. Overtime shall be calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour in the total amount of time to be claimed.”

 

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