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

statutory rules.

1951. No.27.

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REGULATION UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1950.*

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 1922-1950.

Dated this fifteenth day of March, 1951.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Prime Minister.

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Amendment of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations.

1. After regulation 64 of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations the following regulation is inserted :—

Overtime.

“ 65.—(1.) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) ‘ sitting day ’ means a day on which the Senate or the House of Representatives meets, and, whenever a meeting of the Senate or the House extends after midnight, includes the part of the next succeeding day during which an officer to whom this regulation applies is required to perform duty during or immediately after the conclusion of that meeting ; and

(b) any reference to an officer’s period of duty does not include any time within that period for which he is allowed time off duty for the purposes of meals.

“ (2.) An officer of the Fourth Division of the Parliamentary Service (not being an officer entitled to payment in respect of overtime under a determination made by the Public Service Arbitrator) who is required to perform duty for a period in excess of ten hours on a sitting day shall be entitled, in addition to his salary, to payment in accordance with this regulation.

“ (3.) Where the officer has performed duty for a period of more than ten hours but less than thirteen hours on a sitting day, he shall be entitled to payment of an amount of Ten shillings for that sitting day.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1951.

  Statutory Rules 1941, No. 18, as amended by Statutory Rules 1941, No. 309; 1942, No. 249; 1947, Nos. 13, 62, 154 and 165; and 1951, No. 26.

226.—Price 3d. 12/8.3.1951.

 

“ (4.) Where the officer has performed duty for a period of more than thirteen hours on a sitting day, he shall be entitled to payment of an amount of One pound for that sitting day.

“ (5.) An officer who is entitled to receive payment under this regulation and who desires that instead of such payment all duty performed by him in excess of ten hours on sitting days be taken into account by the Parliamentary Head in fixing the period of recreation leave which may be granted to him during any year may elect not to receive payment under this regulation and, thereupon, the officer shall cease to be entitled to payment under this regulation in respect of that year.

“ (6.) An election under the last preceding sub-regulation shall be made—

(a) in the case of a person who is an officer at the date on which the making of this regulation is notified in the Gazette—within two weeks after that date ; or

(b) in the case of a person who becomes an officer after that date—within two weeks after the date on which he becomes an officer,

and thereafter during the month of January in each year.”.

Retrospective Payments.

2.—(1.) An officer who, on or after the twenty-second day of February, 1950, performed duty for a period in excess of ten hours on a sitting day shall be entitled, in respect of that duty, to payment in accordance with regulation 65 of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations, as inserted by the last preceding regulation.

(2.) Expressions in this regulation have the same meaning as in regulation 65 of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations, as inserted by the last preceding regulation.

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By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government