Public Service Act Amendment Act 1967 (WA)

1967.] Public Service. [No. 60.

PUBLIC SERVICE.

No. 60 of 1967.

AN ACT to amend the Public Service Act, 1904-1966, so as to make provision for the employment of married women as officers of the Public Service, and for incidental and other purposes.

[Assented to 5th December, 1967.]

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

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

Act Amendment Act, 1967.

(2) In this Act the Public Service Act, 19044966, latN,V,:eddrg reprint, 10th

is referred to as the principal Act.	July, 1967.
(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Public Service Act, 1904-1967.

No. 60.] Public Service. [1967.

6.29A added 2. The principal Act is amended by adding after

section twenty-nine a section as follows-

Married

women may	29A. (1) A female officer may be granted
be appointed

or continue

approval by the Commissioner to continue to

in service

as officers.

hold office after her marriage.

(2) The Commissioner may appoint a married

woman to an office within the Public Service.

(3) The appointment of a person continued in office under subsection (1) of this section may, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, be determined at any time by the Commis- sioner. .

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amended. 3. Section fifty-six of the principal Act is

amended

(a)	by adding after the word, "marriage", being the last word in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subsection (6), the passage, "and to female officers who, pursuant to subsection (1) of section twenty-nine A of this Act, continue to hold office after their marriage"; and
(b)	by adding after paragraph (d) of subsection (7) a paragraph as follows-

(da) where a lump sum payment for pro rata long service entitlement has been made, in accordance with the regulations, to a female officer who has continued, under subsection (1) of section twenty-nine A of this Act, to hold office after her marriage—any period of service that was taken into account in ascertaining the amount of that lump sum payment; .