High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1944. No. 172.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HIGH COMMISSIONER ACT 1909-1940.*

I, THE Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the High Commissioner Act 1909-1940.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of November, 1944.

W. DUGAN

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

Prime Minister.

 

Amendments of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations. 

1. After regulation 14 of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

War bonus.

“14a.—(1.) As on and from the first day of June, 1943, and for such period thereafter as the Minister determines, any officer or employee whose salary is subject to variation in accordance with the last preceding regulation may, at the discretion of the High Commissioner and subject to such conditions as the High Commissioner determines, be paid, in lieu of the rate of his salary as so varied, an amount equal to the sum of his salary and war bonus.

“(2.) In this regulation—

‘war bonus’ means the war bonus which is paid from time to time to non-industrial civil servants employed by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom;

‘salary’ (last occurring) means, in relation to any officer or employee, the rate of salary which would be payable to him under regulation 14 of these Regulations, if the index figures were the same as the index figures issued by the Ministry of Labour of the United Kingdom for the six months ended on the thirtieth day of September, 1939.”.

Meal allowance.

2. Regulation 60 of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.).

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1944.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 258, as amended by Statutory Rules, 1943, Nos. 73 and 300.

 

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

5530.—Price 3d. 9/31.8.1944.