Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 39.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1960.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1960, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulations.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of May, 1962.

F. H. WHEELER

Chairman.

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 approve the following Regulations.

Dated this thirty-first day of May, 1962.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

GORDON FREETH

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

 

Amendments of the Public Service Regulations. 

Illness caused through misconduct.

1. Regulation 60 of the Public Service Regulations as amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “a fee” and inserting in their stead the words “the fee payable”; and (b) by omitting sub-regulation (4.).

Rates of travelling allowances.

2. Regulation 75a of the Public Service Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (3.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(3a.) The rate of travelling allowance payable to an officer who attends a course of training that the Board has determined to be a course of training to which this sub-regulation applies is Two pounds twelve shillings per day.”.

Miscellaneous allowances.

3. Regulation 89a is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.)

Partial reimbursement of fares of certain officers.

4.Regulation 98aa is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the figures “£685” and inserting in their stead the figures “£740”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 7th June, 1962.

Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1962, No. 1, and see also Statutory Rules 1962, Nos. 1, 21 and 33.

1887/62.—Price 3d.

Notification of, and appeals against provisional promotions.

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

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1.) A notification of the making of a provisional promotion under section 50 of the Act shall be published in the Gazette.

“(1a.) An appeal against a provisional promotion shall be made by letter or telegram delivered to the office of the appropriate officer within the time that commences on the date on which the notification of the provisional promotion is published in the Gazette and ends at the close of business of the office of the appropriate officer on the twenty-first day after that date.

“(1b.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, the appropriate officer is—

(a) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in a State—the Public Service Inspector in that State;

(b) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in the Australian Capital Territory, other than an office in the Postmaster-General’s Department or the Department of Civil Aviation—the Chairman, Promotions Appeal Committee, Australian Capital Territory;

(c) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in the Postmaster-General’s Department, or the Department of Civil Aviation, in the Australian Capital Territory—the Public Service Inspector, Sydney;

(d) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in the Northern Territory—the Chairman, Promotions Appeal Committee, Darwin;

(e) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in the Territory of Papua or the Territory of New Guinea—the Public Service Inspector, Brisbane;

(f) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in Norfolk Island—the Public Service Inspector, Sydney; or

(g) if the provisional promotion is made to an office in any other place outside Australia—the Chairman, Promotions Appeal Committee, Australian Capital Territory.”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the word “from” and inserting in its stead the word “after”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the word “Darwin,” (wherever occurring).

Conditions of transfer from Fourth Division to Third Division.

6.—(1.) Regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the figures “£400” and inserting in their stead the figures “£499”.

(2.) Regulation 9 of Statutory Rules 1961, No. 68 is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the figures “£400” and inserting in their stead the figures “£499”.

 

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