Public Service Acts Amendment Act of 1965 (Qld)

l8' (Quee ^ tsla ^ t ^ Y ANNO QUARTO DECIMO ELIZABETHAE SECUNDAE REGINAE No. 15 of 1965 An Act to Amend "The Public Service Acts, 1922 to 1963," in certain particulars [ASSENTED To 22ND APRIL, 1965] BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , as follows:- 1. (1) Short title . This Act may be cited as " The Public Service Acts Amendment Act of 1965." (2) Principal Act. " The Public Service Acts, 1922 to 1963," are in this Act referred to as the Principal Act. (3) Collective title . The Principal Act and this Act may be collectively cited as " The Public Service Acts, 1922 to 1965. " 2. Repeal of and new s. 6. The Principal Act is amended by repealing section six and inserting in its stead the following section:- " [6.] Salary of the Commimio.er . (1) The Commissioner shall, during his continuance in office, receive a salary at such rate per annum, being not less than five thousand two hundred and fifty pounds, as is determined from time to time by the Governor in Council.

188 Public Service Acts Amendment Act of 1965, No. l5 (2) Until the first such determination the Commissioner in office at the date of the passing of " The Public Service Acts Amendment Act of 1965 " shall receive, and it is hereby declared always was entitled to receive on and from the twentieth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-four, a salary at the annual rate of five thousand two hundred and fifty pounds increased by the amount by which the annual rate of the salary payable to the Commissioner immediately prior to that date had been increased pursuant to the provisions of subsection (2) of section six of " The Public Service Acts. 1922 to 1963." (3) The annual rate of the salary payable for the time being to the Commissioner shall, as on and from the first day of July in each and every year, commencing with the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-five, be increased or, as the case may be , decreased by the amount calculated on an annual basis to the nearest pound by which the basic wage for males declared by the Full Bench of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Commission under " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Arts, 1961 to 1964," shall have been increased or decreased during the preceding period of twelve months. (4) The amount of the salary payable for the time being to the Commissioner shall be a charge upon and be paid out of Consolidated Revenue which is hereby appropriated accordingly." 3. Insertion of new s. 15. The Principal Act is amended by inserting after section fourteen the following section:- " [15.] Administration of the public bosiaess . (1) The Governor in Council may from time to time by Proclamation- (a) establish Departments of State: (b) discontinue any existing Department of State or any part thereof. (2) Without limiting subsection (1) of this section, any new Department may be established by the severance thereof from an existing Department or Departments, or by the amalgamation of existing Departments or parts thereof, or of any existing Department and a part of another or parts of others, or otherwise howsoever as the Governor in Council thinks proper. (3) Without limiting the generality of the power conferred upon the Governor in Council by subsections (1) and (2) of this section, such power shall include power from time to time to do all or an% of the following things:- ta) to assign a name to or alter the name of any new ar existing Department ; (b) to determine or redetermine the public business, matters, and things to be administered by any new or existing Department:

Public Service Acts Amendment Act of 1965, t ' o. 15 189 (c) to determine or redetermine the sub-Departments, branches, sections, and offices (or any of them) of any new or existing Department ; (d) to assign or re-assign any sub-Department, branch, section or office of any Department including officers and employees (whether identified by name, class, designation. or otherwise howsoever) to any new or existing Department (or any part thereof). (e) to make all such arrangements and give all such directions as the Governor in Council considers necessary or desirable to carry out the objects of the Proclamation. (4) Where by arrangements or directions made or given prior to the enactment of this section or by Proclamation under this section, the name of any Department of State is altered or any Department of State is discontinued- (a) in the case of alteration in the name of a Department, any reference in any Act or law or document or writing to such Department by its former name shall be deemed to refer to it by its altered name and shall be read accordingly; (b) in the case of discontinuance of a Department, any reference in any Act or law or document or writing to such discontinued Department by name shall be deemed to refer to the other Department by which, pursuant to any arrangement or direction made or given by Proclamation under this section, such Act or law. or the business to which such Act or law or document or writing relates is to be administered, and every such reference shall accordingly be read by substituting for the name of the discontinued Department the name of such other Department. For the purposes of this subsection, but without limiting the meaning of the expression " discontinued ", a Department shall be deemed to have been or to be discontinued if it ceased to be named in any arrangements, or directions made or given prior to the enactment of this section as a Department of State or if it ceases to be named by any Proclamation under this subsection as a Department of State." 4. Amendment of s. 17, Section seventeen of the Principal Act is amended by adding the following subsection:- " (3) (a) On and from a date to be fixed by the Governor in Council by Order in Council it shall be sufficient for all purposes to express at a fortnightly rate the amount or rate of any salary, wage or allowance of any person in the employment of the Crown, or of any prescribed corporation or instrumentality or of any corporation or instrumentality included in a prescribed class, which is not expressed at an hourly, daily, weekly or other periodical amount or rate less than a fortnightly amount or rate,

190 Public Service Acts Amendment Act ci 1965, No. 15 (b) Without limit to the generality of the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection any salary, wage or allowance which pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection may be sufficiently expressed at a fortnightly amount or rate- (i) may be so expressed in any appointment, official voucher, act of authority or other document or writing either with or without reference to the annual or other periodical amount or rate thereof; and (ii) may be paid at the fortnightly amount or rate at which it is so expressed notwithstanding that an annual or other periodical amount or rate is fixed by any award under and within the meaning of " The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Acts, 1961 to 1964 "."