Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 81

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REGULATIONS 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 Regulations.

Dated this fifth day of June, 1970.

Chairman

Commissioner.

Deputy of a 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 Regulations.

Dated this eleventh day of June, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Housing for and on behalf of the Prime Minister

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Amendments of the Public Service Regulations 

Notification of, and appeals against, provisional promotions.

1. Regulation 109 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

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

“(e) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in the Territory of Papua or the Territory of New Guinea—the Senior Inspector, Office of the Public Service Board, Port Moresby;”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “promotion, the Inspector or the Chairman, Promotions Appeal Committee, as the case may be,” and inserting in their stead the words “promotion, the appropriate officer in relation to the promotion for the purposes of sub-regulation (1A.) of this regulation”; and

 

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25 June 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, Nos. 7, 13, 14, 19, 29, 42, 57 and 58.

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(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “from the Inspector or the Chairman, Promotions Appeal Committee, as the case may be” and inserting in their stead the words “from the appropriate officer in relation to the promotion for the purposes of sub-regulation (la.) of this regulation”.

Appeals in relation to certain Territories and places outside Australia.

2. Regulation 109e of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting sub-regulations (3.) and (4.);

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (7.) the words “(not being a place in a Territory specified in this regulation) “and inserting in their stead the words “, not being a place in a Territory of the Commonwealth specified in this regulation, in the Territory of Papua or in the Territory of New Guinea,”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (8.) the words “the Commonwealth (not being a place in a Territory specified in this regulation)” and inserting in their stead the words “Australia, not being a place in a Territory of the Commonwealth specified in this regulation, in the Territory of Papua or in the Territory of New Guinea,”.

3. After regulation 109ea of the Public Service Regulation the following regulation is inserted:—

Prescribed data for the purposes of Section 50 (14.)—Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

“109eb. For the purposes of sub-section (14.) of section 50 of the Act, the prescribed date in respect of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, being the Territories that are governed in an administrative union in accordance with the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949-1968, is the twenty-fifth day of June, 1970.”.

Hearing of certain appeals by officers performing their duties in, or certain appeals in respect of offices in, the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

4.—(1.) Where, on the date specified in regulation 109eb of the Public Service Regulations as amended by these Regulations—

(a)an appeal against a provisional promotion has been made by an officer performing his duties in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea or an appeal against a provisional promotion to an office in that Territory has been made and the appeal has not been inquired into and determined; or

(b)a provisional promotion has been made to an office in that Territory and the time within which an appeal against the promotion may be made has not expired,

the Public Service Regulations as amended by these Regulations apply to and in relation to—

(c) the appeal; or

(d)an appeal against the provisional promotion,

in the same manner as they apply to and in relation to an appeal against a provisional promotion notified in the Gazette on or after the date so specified—

(e) being an appeal made by an officer performing his duties in that Territory; or

(f) being an appeal in respect of an office in that Territory.

(2.) In the last preceding sub-regulation, a reference to the Territory of Papua and New Guinea shall he read as a reference to the Territories that are governed in an administrative union in accordance with the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949-1968.

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