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

Statutory Rules

1976 No. 2

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1975.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of Australia, acting with the advice of the 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 1922-1975.

Dated this fourteenth day of January, 1976.

A. R. CUTLER

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

KEVIN NEWMAN

Minister of State for Repatriation for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

Amendments of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations

1. After regulation 7 of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Hours of duty.

“ 7a. (1) The normal hours of duty of an officer are the hours of duty specified in the prescribed category of hours of duty that the Parliamentary Head, on the recommendation of the Permanent Head, directs to be applicable to the class of officers in which the officer is included or, in a particular case, to that officer.

“ (2) For the purposes of this regulation, the prescribed categories of hours of duty are the categories specified in the following table:—

Prescribed Category of Hours of Duty	Normal Hours of Duty
1	321/2 hours per week in a week that is not a sessional week and 42 hours per week in a week that is a sessional week
2	341/2 hours per week in a week that is not a sessional week and 40 hours per week in a week that is a sessional week
3	363/4 hours per week
4	40 hours per week

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 22 January 1976.

  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; 1956, Nos. 56 and 57; 1957, No. 26; 1958, Nos. 19, 44 and 66; 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, 148 and 160; 1965 Nos. 43, 53, 118, 150 and 181; 1966, 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; 1970, Nos. 27, 79 and 160; 1972, Nos. 41 and 85; 1973 Nos. 3, 167, 223 and 224; 1974, Nos. 10 and 183; and 1975, No. 22.

Times of duty —officers performing category 1 or 2 hours.

2. Regulation 8 of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1) In this regulation, ‘ officer ’ means an officer whose normal hours of duty are the hours of duty specified in category 1 or 2 in the table in sub-regulation 7a (2).”.

Times of duty —officers performing category 3 hours.

3. Regulation 8a of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1) In this regulation, ‘ officer ’ means an officer whose normal hours of duty are the hours of duty specified in category 3 in the table in sub-regulation 7a (2).”.

Times of duty —officers performing category 4 hours.

4. Regulation 8b of the Public Service (Parliamentary Officers) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (1) and (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (1) In this regulation, ‘officer’ means an officer whose normal hours of duty are the hours of duty specified in category 4 in the table in sub-regulation 7a (2).”.