Public Service Act Amendment Act 1911 (WA)

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No. 10 of 1912.

AN ACT to amend the Public Service Act

1904.

[Assented to 9th January, 1912.]

Legislative Assembly of Western "Australia, in this present Par-BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by andwith the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.     This Act may be cited as the Public Service Act Amend- Short Title.

meat Act, 1911, and shall be read as one with the Public Service

Act, 1904, hereinafter called the principal Act.

2.      Section twenty of the principal Act is amended by inserting Amendment of

after the words " Professional Division " the words " Clerical Section 20.

Division."

3. Section twenty-one of the principal Act, and the second Repeal of a. 21 and

Schedule thereto, are repealed. second schedule.

4. Section twenty-seven of the principal Act is amended as Amendment of

follows: Section 27.

(a.) by omitting all the words after " shall," in the first line thereof to the end of subsection three, and inserting in place thereof the following words: " so far as practicable be made through the primary entrance examination."

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(b.) by omitting the words " During the month of May in each year " and " Class G ' of " in subsection four, and by adding to the subsection the words "in receipt of one hundred and ten pounds a year or under before any increase of salary is paid to such officer."

Amendment of

section 36. 5. Section thirty-six of the principal Act is amended as

follows :—

(a) by inserting after the word " department," in line one, the

words " after a report from the Commissioner."

(b) by omitting the words " permanent head," in line four,

and inserting " Commissioner."

Amendment of

section 51. 6. Section fifty-one of the principal Act is amended by adding

to subsection one the following proviso:—

" Provided that whenever an Appeal is from a proposal of the Commissioner, or the Commissioner acting in conjunction with assistant commissioners, relating to the classifica- tion or re-classification of an office, the Chairman of the Appeal Board shall be the President for the time being of the Arbitration Court constituted under the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1902, in place of the Commissioner."

Amendment of

section 52. 7. Subsection one of section fifty-two is amended

(a.) by inserting after the word " appeal," in line four, the words " and may either maintain, increase, or reduce the value of the office, as defined by the Commissioner in the proposal appealed from, or change the office from one division to another."

(b.) by adding a subsection as follows :—

(5.) The Commissioner and the Minister of the Department affected may be represented before the Board, either jointly or separately.

By Authority: Plum. Wm. SIMPSON, Government Printer, Perth.