Public Service Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1) (Cth)

Public Service Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 3172

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Public Service Act 1999.

Dated 4 December 2003

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

KEVIN ANDREWS

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

for the Prime Minister

1Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Public Service Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 1).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Public Service Regulations 1999

Schedule 1 amends the Public Service Regulations 1999.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

  

[1]After subregulation 8A.4 (1)

insert

1. (1A)

   However, if the Agency Head is the debtor:

   1. (a)

      the Agency Head must not appoint a paying officer under subregulation (1); and

   2. (b)

      the Agency Head must act under this subregulation without considering whether the making of deductions from the Agency Head’s salary is required; and

   3. (c)

      the Agency Head must, in writing, delegate his or her power under subregulation (1) to appoint a paying officer to an SES employee in the Agency; and

   4. (d)

      the SES employee must:

      1. (i)

         decide whether the making of deductions from the Agency Head’s salary is required; and

      2. (ii)

         if the SES employee decides that the making of the deductions is required — appoint a person as a paying officer for the purpose of making those deductions; and

   5. (e)

      the Agency Head must not take any action, or make any arrangement, in relation to the administration under this Part of the Agency Head’s debt, other than:

      1. (i)

         making the delegation mentioned in paragraph (c); and

      2. (ii)

         if a paying officer is appointed — assisting the paying officer in the repayment of the debt.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1999 No. 300, as amended by 2000 No. 359; 2001 No. 328; 2002 Nos. 214 and 264.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette