Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No.

REGULATION UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1968.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1968, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulation.

Dated this nineteenth day of November, 1970.

Chairman.

Commissioner.

Commissioner.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulation.

Dated this seventh day of December, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Prime Minister.

Amendments of the Public Service Regulations 

Regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (b)of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following paragraphs:—

“ (b)the officer has passed, at an appropriate level, examinations in four approved subjects, being examinations in those subjects held as part of a prescribed examination;

“ (ba)the officer has passed examinations in four approved subjects, being examinations in those subjects held as part of an examination conducted by or on behalf of the Australian Naval Forces, the Australian Military Forces or the Australian Air Force that is of an equivalent standard to a prescribed examination;

“ (bb)the officer is qualified for admission as a matriculated student at an Australian university;

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                                               1970.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1970, No. 7, and see also Statutory Rules 1970, No. 7, 13, 14, 19, 29, 42, 57, 58,81, 85, 86, 93, 110, 111, 125, 128, 129, 137, 141, 147, 143, 149.

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“ (bc)the officer has passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of an examination held in a country other than Australia, being an examination that is of equivalent standard to a prescribed examination; or ”; and

(b)by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulations:—

“ (1A.) For the purpose of this regulation—

(a) an examination referred to in the first column of the following table is a prescribed examination; and

(b) a level specified in the second column of that table in relation to an examination referred to in the first column is an appropriate level in relation to a pass at an examination in a subject held as part of the examination in relation to which it is specified.

First column	Second column
Examinations	Level
New South Wales—
Higher School Certificate Examination	Level 3 or a higher level
Leaving Certificate Examination	Level B or a higher level
Matriculation Examination con-	Level B or a higher level
ducted by the University of Sydney before the year 1967
Matriculation Examination conducted by the University of Sydney in the year 1967 or a subsequent year	Level 3 or a higher level
Victoria—
School Leaving Examination	Pass
Leaving Technical Examination	Pass
Girls’ Secondary Schools Leaving Certificate	Pass
Victorian Technical College First Year Examination held before the year 1965	Pass acceptable to the Victorian Universities and Schools Examination Board as qualifying him to sit for the Victorian Higher School Certificate Examination
Queensland—
Senior Examination held before the year 1967	Level C or a higher level
Senior Examination held in the year 1967 or a subsequent year	Level 4 or a higher level
South Australia—
Leaving Examination held before the year 1966	Grade D or a higher grade
Leaving Examination held in the year 1966 or a subsequent year	Grade 3 or a higher grade
Matriculation Examination	Grades A, B, C or D
Western Australia—
Leaving Examination	Pass
Matriculation Examination	Pass
Tasmania—
Higher School Certificate Examination	Level 2 or a higher level
Schools Board Certificate Examination	Pass Certificate endorsed ‘A’

“ (1b.) The Board may, by determination of general application published in the Gazette,determine that, in circumstances specified in the determination, a subject in which an examination is held as part of a prescribed examination, or an examination referred to in paragraph (ba)or (bc)of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation is

not to count ns an approved subject for the purpose of paragraph (b), (ba) or (bc),as the case may be, of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.

“ (1c.) A pass in an examination in a subject held as part of a prescribed examination, or of an examination referred to in paragraph (ba)or (bc)of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, does not count as a pass in an examination in an approved subject for the purpose of paragraph (b),(ba) or (bc),as the case may be, of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation if, in accordance with the conditions determined under sub-regulation (1b.) of this regulation, the subject is not to count as an approved subject for the purpose of that paragraph.

“ (1d.) An officer shall not be taken to have passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of a prescribed examination unless he has passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of a prescribed examination held in a particular year or of two prescribed examinations held in successive years.

“ (1e.) An officer shall not be taken to have passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of an examination conducted by or on behalf of the Australian Naval Forces, the Australian Military Forces or the Australian Air Force for the purpose of paragraph (ba)of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation—

(a)unless he has passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of one examination, or of two examinations held in the same year or in successive years, of a kind referred to in that paragraph held by the Australian Naval Forces, the Australian Military Forces or the Australian Air Force, as the case may be; or

(b) in a case where he has passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of two such examinations that were not successive examinations—if he attempted, but failed, to pass an examination in an approved subject held as part of such an examination after the first and before the second of those two examinations.

“ (1f.) An officer shall not be taken to have passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of an examination held in a country other than Australia for the purpose of paragraph (bc)of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation unless he has passed examinations in four approved subjects held as part of one examination, or of two successive examinations, of a kind referred to in that paragraph held in such a country.

“ (1g.) An officer shall not be taken to have qualified for admission as a matriculated student at a university in Australia if he is entitled to be admitted as such a student only subject to his admission being reviewed as provided by or under the statutes of that university.

“ (1h.) In making determinations under sub-regulation (1b.) of this regulation, the Board shall so exercise its powers as to ensure that the qualifications provided for under paragraphs (b), (ba) and (bc)of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation are equivalent to the qualifications that a person would require to be eligible for appointment as an officer of the Third Division.”.

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