Government Employees (Promotions Appeal Board) Act Amendment Act 1956 (WA)

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(Promotions Appeal Board).

GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES

(PROMOTIONS APPEAL BOARD).

5° Elizabeth II., No. LXXVI.

No. 76 of 1956.

AN ACT to amend the Government Employees

(Promotions Appeal Board) Act, 1945-1954.

[Assented to 14th January, 1957.]

BE it enacted, by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

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and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Government Employees (Promotions Appeal Board) Act Amend- ment Act, 1956.

(2) In this Act the Government Employees

(Promotions Appeal Board) Act, 1945-1954.

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Act No. 38 of 1945 as reprinted with amendments Approved for to and including Act No. 28 of 1954, incorporated 2.June.

pursuant to the provisions of the Amendments

Incorporation Act, 1938,

is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Government Employees (Promo- tions Appeal Board) Act, 1945-1956.

2. Section five of the principal Act is amended amended.

(a)	by adding after the word, "office" in line two of subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of the proviso to subsection (1), the passage, ", which is not that of teacher in any Government school as defined in section three of the Education Act, 1928, or in any teachers' training college established or maintained under that Act, but";
(b)	by adding after the passage, "an employee;" in line four of subparagraph (ii) of para- graph (a) of the proviso to subsection (1) the passage

or

(iii) in respect of any office of teacher in a Government school as defined in section three of the Education Act, 1928, which is of or above the classi- fication of

Headmaster of a class I. primary school, with four units of responsi- bility as prescribed by that Act; or

Headmaster of a basic high school, with two or more than two units of responsibility as so prescribed; or

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Principal or Deputy Principal of

Perth Technical College; or

Principal of a class I. technical

school;

Or

(iv) in respect of any office of teacher in a teachers' training college estab- lished or maintained under the Education Act, 1928, which is of or above the classification of

Vice Principal of the Teachers' Training College, Claremont, or of the Teachers' Training College, Graylands. ;

(c) by substituting for the passage commencing with the word, "unless" in line twelve of paragraph (b) of the proviso to subsection (1) and ending with the word, "office" being the last word of that paragraph the passage, "but if no application is received from an employee applicant referred to in this paragraph for appointment to or employment in the vacancy or new office, the right of appeal under this section may be exercised by any applicant who is employed in the department in which the vacancy occurs or the new office is created.

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amended. 3. Subsection (3) of section fourteen of the principal Act is amended by adding after the word, "wages" being the last word of paragraph (d) of the interpretation, "Seniority" the word, "but" and a paragraph as follows-

(da) As between persons employed in the

Education Department as teachers in any

Government school or schools or in any

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Government teachers' training college or colleges — Seniority by longer period of service as a teacher with that department, which service includes service as a monitor and as a student in a teachers' college; but where the whole of that service of a person so employed has not been continuous, his service for the purpose of determining his seniority, shall be calculated only as from the day on which he was last appointed as teacher in the department and from which his service has been continuous.