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

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No. 41

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1968.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, and 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 1922-1968.

Dated this twenty-third day of March, 1972.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Member of the Federal Executive Council for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

 

Amendments of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations

Shift duty.

1.—(1.) After regulation 65c of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

“65d.—(1.) In this regulation—

‘officer to whom this regulation applies’ means an officer or employee of the Joint House Department—

(a) who holds, or performs the duties of the office of Manager (Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms, Joint House Department); or

(b)who is under the general control or supervision of the Manager (Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms, Joint House Department), the Principal Technical Officer or the Housekeeper,

but does not include a person holding, or performing the duties of, the office of Attendant, Grade 3 or Attendant, Grade 1;

‘prescribed period’, in relation to an officer to whom this regulation applies, means a period comprising the normal hours of duty of the officer on a day.

“(2.) Subject to this regulation, where an officer to whom this regulation applies works during a prescribed period, being a period commencing or terminating after seven-thirty o’clock in the evening of a day and before six-thirty o’clock in the morning of the next following day, he shall be paid, in respect of his working during that period, additional salary at a rate equal to three-twentieths of—

(a) in the case of an officer in receipt of salary at a rate exceeding $6,016.00 per annum—that rate; or

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1972.

 Statutory Rules 1941, No. 18, as amended byStatutory 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; 1956, Nos. 56 and 57; 1957, No. 26; 1958, Nos. 19, 44 and 60; 1959, No. 61; 1960,Nos. 78 and 92; 1961, No. 98; 1962, No. 6; 1963, Nos. 3, 66, 83, 119, and 123; 1964, Nos. 41, 42, 80, 132 and 148; 1965, Nos. 43, 93, 118, 150 and 181; l966, Nos. 59, 60,92, 122, 143 and 161; 1967, Nos. 38, 73, 95 and 156; 1968, Nos. 56, 84, 93, 116, 137 and 157; 1969, Nos. 75, 173 and 174; and 1970, Nos. 27, 72 and 160.

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(b) in the case of any other officer—the rate at which salary is payable to him.

“(3.) Subject to this regulation, where—

(a) an officer to whom this regulation applies works throughout each prescribed period that occurs during a period exceeding four weeks; and

(b) each prescribed period so occurring commences after seven-thirty o’clock in the evening of a day and terminates before eight o’clock in the morning of the next following day,

he shall be paid, in respect of his working during those prescribed periods, in addition to his salary for those periods and in addition to any amount payable to him under the last preceding sub-regulation for those periods, an amount calculated at the rate of three-twentieths of—

(a) in the case of an officer in receipt of salary at a rate exceeding $6,016.00 per annum—that rate; or

(b) in the case of any other officer—the rate at which salary is payable to him.

“(4.) Where an officer is entitled to payment under any of the last three preceding regulations in respect of any duty, he is not entitled to payment under this regulation in respect of that duty.

“(5.) For the purposes of ascertaining the amount payable to an officer under this regulation in respect of a fortnightly pay period, the total period during which he performed duly in respect of which he is entitled to payment in accordance with sub-regulation (2.) or (3.), respectively, of this regulation during the pay period shall be calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour.”.

(2.) Regulation 65d of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations, as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation, applies to and in relation to work performed by an officer to whom the regulation applies on or after the twenty-second day of February, 1972.

Second Schedule— Part I.

2.—(1.) Part I. of the Second Schedule to the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations is amended by omitting item 38 and inserting in its stead the following item:—

“38 Nightwatchman......................................... 3,145–3,219–3,293”.

(2.) The scale of rates of annual salary payable to an officer who occupies the office of nightwatchman specified in item 38 of Part I. of the Second Schedule to the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations, as amended by the last preceding sub-regulation, applies to and in relation to service in that office on or after the twenty-second day of February, 1972.

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