Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1966 No. 16

 

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 nineteenth day of January, 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 twenty-sixth day of January, 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 

Recreation leave to be taken in the year in which it accrues.

1. Regulation 48 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“ (3.) Nothing in sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation in so far as it provides that leave of absence for recreation shall lapse if not taken in the year in which it accrues, applies to and in relation to an officer who renders

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 February, 1966.

Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended by Statutory Rules 1935, Nos. 44, 72, 78 and 119; 1936, Nos. 5, 55, 76, 88, 106, 116, 143 and 154; 1937, Nos. 11, 25, 54, 60, 74, 78, 87, 100, 103 and 118; 1938, Nos. 35, 41, 79, 105, 110 and 113; 1939, Nos. 4, 36, 52, 62, 65, 105, 154, 167 and 168; 1940, Nos. 23, 74, 110, 143 and 247; 1941, Nos. 36, 42, 127, 148, 158, 168, 191, 224, 284 and 310; 1942, Nos. 45, 167, 174, 182, 225, 320, 465, 466 and 552; 1943, Nos. 271, 272 and 301; 1944, Nos. 6, 132, 138 and 143; 1945, Nos. 15, 35. 115, 118 and 124; 1946, Nos. 22, 68, 120, 124 and 153; 1947, Nos. 1, 2, 122, 123, 134, 146, 147, 158 and 163; 1948, Nos. 32, 49, 68, 71, 97, 149, 157 and 158; 1949, Nos. 1, 81, 84 and 98; 1950, Nos. 73, 88, 99 and 100; 1951, Nos. 13, 33, 77 and 110; 1952, Nos. 9, 19, 51 and 94; 1953, Nos. 2, 20, 47, 51, 70 and 93; 1954, Nos. 12, 57, 94, 103 and 126; 1955, Nos. 43, 48 and 67; 1956, Nos. 48, 49, 50 and 133; 1957, Nos. 22 and 58; 1958, Nos. 37 and 57; 1959, Nos. 11, 16, 42, 68 and 99; 1960, Nos. 12, 18, 33, 73, 89 and 93; 1961, Nos. 35, 68, 69, 83, 87, 99, 114, 116, 125, 136 and 147; 1962, Nos. 1, 21, 33, 39, 84 and 91; 1963, Nos. 4, 5, 20, 22, 33, 41, 42, 55, 59. 65, 81, 82, 86, 106, 108, 151, 152 and 153; 1964, No. 18 , 40, 45, 46, 49, 53 , 72, 88, 96, 109, 110, 118, 120, 131, 140, 147, 150, 151 and 161; 1965, Nos. 4, 12, 19, 23, 30, 44, 48, 71, 75, 76, 149, 172 and 176; and 1966, No. 1.

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full-time military service under the National Service Act 1951-1965 while he renders that service, and any leave of absence that would, but for the preceding provisions of this sub-regulation, have lapsed shall, for the purpose of the application of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, be deemed to have accrued in the year in which the officer resumes duty after rendering that service.”.

Camping and lodging allowance.

2. Regulation 89 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.) to (6.) (inclusive) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—

“ (2.) The allowance shall be—

(a) if a cook is provided by the Department—

(i) in the case of a married officer—at the rate of Nineteen shillings per day; or

(ii) in the case of an unmarried officer—at the rate of Eight shillings and sixpence per day; and

(b) if a cook is not provided by the Department—

(i) in the case of a married officer—at the rate of One pound one shilling per day; or

(ii) in the case of an unmarried officer—at the rate of Ten shillings and sixpence per day.

“ (3.) Where an officer who is not supplied with camping equipment by the Department hires camping equipment he shall be paid, in addition to the allowance payable under the last preceding sub-regulation, an allowance at such rate as the Chief Officer determines to be a reasonable rate for the hire of the camping equipment.

“ (4.) Where an unmarried officer who is employed as a member of a camping party, pays an amount to retain lodgings at the place at which he resides when not required to camp out, the Chief Officer may authorize the payment to him of such amount as the Chief Officer considers is reasonable in the circumstances.

“ (5.) The Chief Officer may authorize an officer employed as a member of a camping party to reside in lodgings and, where authority is so given—

(a) an allowance is not payable under this regulation to the officer; and

(b) the officer is entitled to an allowance under regulation 75a of these Regulations.

“(6.) In this regulation, ‘officer’ includes an employee.”.

3.—(1.) After regulation 98 of the Public Service Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Reimbursement of fares—children attending school outside isolated districts.

“ 98aaa.—(l.) where—

(a) an officer is stationed in a prescribed isolated district;

(b) a child of the officer is receiving secondary education at a school at a place outside that prescribed isolated district and, as a result, lives away from his parents’ home; and

(c) the child travels to that prescribed isolated district during school holidays that commence in the month of December in a year,

the Chief Officer may reimburse the officer so much of the amount paid by the officer for fares in respect of the child’s journey from the school to the prescribed isolated district in which the officer is stationed and, if the child returns to school at the end of the school holidays to continue his secondary education, in respect of the child’s return journey as exceeds Five pounds.

 

“ (2.) Where reimbursement has been made under the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of a journey or journeys in school holidays that commence in the month of December in one year, reimbursement shall not be made under that sub-regulation in respect of a journey or journeys in the school holidays that commence in the month of December in the next succeeding year.

“ (3.) Where—

(a) an officer is stationed in a prescribed isolated district;

(b)a child of the officer is receiving secondary education at a school at a place outside the prescribed isolated district and, as a result, lives away from his parents’ home;

(c) the officer or his wife is during the school holidays that commence in the month of December in a year away from the prescribed isolated district and authority has been given under regulation 98 of these Regulations for the reimbursement to the officer of an amount in respect of the officer’s or his wife’s fares for a journey to the nearest capital city or destination of lesser distance and return; and

(d)the child travels, during the school holidays, from the place at which his school is situated to the place at which the officer or his wife is during the school holidays,

the Chief Officer may authorize the reimbursement to the officer—

(e) of an amount equal to—

(i) so much of the amount paid by the officer for fares in respect of the child’s journey from the place at which the school is situated to the place where the officer or the officer’s wife is as exceeds Five pounds;

(ii) so much of the amount that would have been paid by the officer for the fares for a journey by the child if the child had travelled from the place at which the school is situated to the nearest capital city or destination of lesser distance referred to in paragraph (c) of this sub-regulation as exceeds Five pounds; or

(iii) that would have been payable under regulation 98 of these Regulations by way of reimbursement to the officer for the fares of the child if the child had travelled from the prescribed isolated district with the officer or the officer’s wife on the journeys referred to in paragraph (c) of this sub-regulation,

whichever is the less; and

(f) if the child returns to school at the end of the school holidays to continue his secondary education, an amount equal to whichever of the three amounts refered to in the last preceding paragraph is the less.

“ (4.) Where reimbursement has been made under the last preceding sub-regulation in respect of a journey or journeys in school holidays that commence in the month of December in one year, reimbursement shall not be made under that sub-regulation in respect of a journey or journeys in the school holidays that commence in the month of December in the next succeeding year.

 

“ (5.) This regulation does not apply to and in relation to an officer stationed in the Territory of Papua or in the Territory of New Guinea unless the Board directs that it applies to and in relation to the officer.

“ (6.) For the purposes of this regulation, a child of an officer whose return to school is delayed by illness or by other cause that, in the opinion of the Board, is reasonable in the circumstances shall, if he returns to school as soon as possible after he ceases to be ill or the cause ceases to exist, be deemed to have returned to school at the end of the school holidays.

“ (7.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation reimbursement under sub-regulation (1.) or (3.) of this regulation shall only be made in respect of a journey in school holidays by a child who is under the age of eighteen years at the commencement of the school holidays.

“ (8.) Where a child has attained the age of eighteen years in the year in which he completes his secondary education, the Board may authorize reimbursement under sub-regulation (1.) or (3.) of this regulation in respect of a journey by the child from the school after the completion of his secondary education.

“ (9.) In this Regulation, ‘ prescribed isolated district ’ has the same meaning as in sub-regulation (6.) of regulation 49 of these Regulations.”.

(2.) Regulation 98aaa inserted in the Public Service Regulations by the last preceding sub-regulation applies in relation to the school holidays that commenced in the month of December, 1965, or commence in the month of December in subsequent years.

4. After regulation 98a of the Public Service Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Definition.

“ 98ab. In regulations 98aaa and 98a of these Regulations, ‘ officer ’ includes an employee.”.

Rates and conditions of Woomera allowance.

5. Regulation 103a of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “ the village of Woomera ” and inserting in their stead the words “ a place within a radius of 50 miles from the Post Office at Woomera ”;

(b)by inserting in sub-regulation (3.), after the words “ stationed at ”, the words “ or is directed to perform duty for more than seven days at ”;

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “ as a regular member of a camping party camping elsewhere than at an established camp ” and inserting in their stead the words “ and is required to camp elsewhere than at an established camp as a regular member of a camping party or as a member of such a camping party for a period exceeding seven days ”; and

(d) by inserting after sub-regulation (4.) the following sub-regulation:—

“ (4a.) Where an allowance is payable to an officer or employee under either of the last two preceding sub-regulations for a period, an allowance is not payable to the officer or employee under sub-regulation (1.) or (2.) of this regulation for that period.”.

Promotions on the basis of senior efficient officer available.

6.Regulation 109g of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting the words—

“ Preventive Officer, Grade I.”.

Temporary transfer.

7. Regulation 116 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (2.).

 

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

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