Public Service Act 1968 (Cth)

Public Service

No. 59 of 1968

An Act to amend the Public Service Act 1922-1967 with respect to certain Leave.

[Assented to 25 June 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Public Service Act 1968.

 

(2.) The Public Service Act 1922–1967, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Public Service Act 1922–1968.

Commencement

2.This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Extended leave or pay in lieu to officers not entitled to furlough.

3.—(1.) Section 74 of the Public Service Act 1922–1967 is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-section (3.) the word “eight” and inserting in its stead the word “four”.

(2.) The provision amended by the last preceding sub-section shall, as so amended, be deemed, in relation to an officer who was, on or after the first day of September, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-seven, and before the commencement of this Act, retired from the Commonwealth Service, under section 20 of the Public Service Act 1922–1966 or that Act as amended at any time, after not less than four years service but less than eight years’ service, to have been in force when the officer was so retired.

  

* Act No. 21, 1922 as amended by No. 46, 1924; No. 41, 1928; No. 19, 1930; No. 21, 1931; No. 72, 1932; No. 38, 1933; Nos. 45 and 46, 1934; No. 72. 1936; No. 41, 1937; No. 72, 1939; No. 88, 1940; No. 5, 1941; No. 19, 1943; Nos. 11, 29 and 43, 1945; No. 16, 1946; Nos. 1, 38, 52 and 84, 1947; Nos. 35 and 75, 1948; Nos. 51 and 80, 1950; Nos. 46 and 48, 1951; No. 22, 1953; No. 63, 1954; No. 18, 1955; Nos. 13 and 39, 1957; No. 11, 1958; Nos. 17 and 105, 1960; Nos. 2 and 75, 1964; Nos. 47 and 85, 1966; and Nos. 2 and 115. 1967.