Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 121

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1964.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1964, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulations.

Dated this second day of August, 1966.

F. H. WHEELER

Chairman.

K. E. GRAINGER

Commissioner.

J. E. COLLINGS

Commissioner.

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

Dated this eighteenth day of August, 1966.

CASEY

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. G. GORTON

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

 

Amendments of the Public Service Regulations 

Meal allowance.

1. Regulation 68 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by inserting after paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the following paragraph:—

“(ba)is required to perform duty on a day before the time at which his ordinary hours of duty for the day commence, is granted a break for a meal before that time and is not entitled to payment for that break;”.

2. After regulation 79b of the Public Service Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Reimbursement of fares—change of location of branch, &c.

“79c.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, an officer or employee who incurs in a fortnight additional fares in travelling by public transport to and from his place of duty by reason of the transfer of the branch, the division, or the section, or the part of the branch, division or section, in which he carries out his duties, to a new location in the same city or town, either permanently or temporarily, is entitled to be paid an allowance for that fortnight equal to the amount of those additional fares.

  

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25 August, 1966.

Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations, see footnote to Statutory Rules 1966, No. 16, and see also Statutory Rules 1966, Nos. 16, 17, 43, 71, 90, 91, 112 and 120.

4132/66.—Price 5c (6d.)

“(2.) An allowance is not payable under the last preceding sub-regulation unless the Board has directed that allowances under this regulation are to be paid by reason of the transfer of the branch, the division or the section or the part of the branch, division or section.

“(3.) An allowance is not payable under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation to a male officer or employee whose salary exceeds $3,754 per annum or to a female officer or employee whose salary exceeds $3,352 per annum.

“(4.) An allowance is only payable under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation to an officer or employee if the amount of the additional fares incurred by the officer or employee in a fortnight is or exceeds Fifty cents.

“(5.) Unless the Board otherwise directs, an allowance under this regulation is not payable to an officer or employee in respect of any fortnight that occurs—

(a) if the officer or employee changes his place of residence after the transfer—after the date on which he changes his place of residence; or

(b)after the expiration of the period of three months after the commencement of the first fortnight in respect of which the officer received payment of the allowance.

“(6.) Where the Board has given a direction under the last preceding sub-regulation that the payment of an allowance under this regulation be continued after the expiration of the period of three months referred to in that sub-regulation, the allowance is not payable in respect of any fortnight that occurs after the expiration of the period of six months after the commencement of the first fortnight in respect of which the officer received payment of the allowance.”.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra