Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1956. No. 57.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE

ACT 1922-1955.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, on the recommendation of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, hereby make the following Regulations under the Public Service Act 1922-1955.

Dated this nineteenth day of July, 1956.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

AMENDMENTS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE (PARLIAMENTARY OFFICERS) REGULATIONS. 

Commencement.

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the seventh day of June, 1956.

Parts.

2. Regulation 3 of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations is amended by inserting after the words—

“Part IV.—Salaries.”

the words—

“Part V.—Variation of Salary—Officers of Second, Third and Fourth Divisions.”.

Interpretation.

3. Regulation 4 of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) Where a reference is made in regulations 65, 65B, 65C and 66 of these Regulations to—

(a)a specified rate of salary of, or payable to, a male officer; or

(b)a specified rate of salary of, or payable to, a female officer, that regulation shall, from the commencement of this sub-regulation, operate as if the rate so specified were increased by the amount by which the salary payable to a male officer aged twenty-one years or over or a female officer aged twenty-one years or over, as the case requires, is increased in accordance with regulation 73 of these Regulations.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1956.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 18, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, No. 309; 1942, No. 249; 1947, Nos. 13, 62, 154 and 165; 1951, Nos. 26, 27, 78 and 117; 1952, No. 54; 1953, Nos. 72 and 94; 1954, Nos. 86 and 120; 1955, No. 44; and 1956, No. .

3464/56.—Price 3D. 9/13.6.1956.

4. After Part IV. of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations the following Part is inserted:—

“PART V.—VARIATIONS OF SALARY—OFFICERS OF SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH DIVISIONS.

Variation of salary.

“73.—(1.) The rate of salary payable to an officer included in a class of officers specified in the first column of the table in this sub-regulation shall, subject to this regulation, be increased by the amount per annum specified in the second column of that table opposite to the description of that class of officer.

First Column.	Second Column.
Class of Officer.	Amount of Increase.
Per annum.
£
Male officers aged 21 years or over..............................................................................	24
Male officers aged 20 years..........................................................................................	22
Male officers aged 19 years..........................................................................................	18
Male officers aged 18 years..........................................................................................	14
Male officers under 18 years of age..............................................................................	12
Female officers aged 21 years or over...........................................................................	18
Female officers aged 20 years......................................................................................	17
Female officers aged 19 years......................................................................................	15
Female officers aged 18 years......................................................................................	13
Female officers under 18 years of age...........................................................................	12

“(2.) The salary payable to an officer who has not attained the age of twenty-one years shall be increased as if that officer had attained that age if—

(a) he occupies an office for which the rate of salary payable to an officer under twenty-one years of age is prescribed, but, having complied with a condition of advancement determined by the Parliamentary Head in pursuance of section 32 of the Act in respect of that office, he is paid the rate payable to an officer who has attained the age of twenty-one years prescribed for that office; or

(b) he occupies an office in respect of which a rate of salary payable to an officer according to age is not prescribed.

“(3.) The salary of an officer who has not attained the age of twenty years and is an officer referred to in sub-regulation (8.) of regulation 71 of these Regulations shall be increased as if that officer had attained the age of twenty years.

“(4.) For the purposes of this regulation, ‘officer’ means an officer of the Second, Third or Fourth Division.”.

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.