Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 21.

 

REGULATION 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 Regulation.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of February, 1962.

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 approve the following Regulation.

Dated this fifth day of March, 1962.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. R. DOWNER

for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

 

AMENDMENT OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS. 

After regulation 119A of the Public Service Regulations, the following regulation is inserted:

Payment of removal expenses on death or retirement of officer.

“119B.—(1.) Where the family of a deceased person who was an officer resided with him in the locality in which, immediately before his death or retirement, he performed his duties, the Board may, if it thinks fit, after having had regard to—

(a) the circumstances in which he was appointed, transferred or promoted to that locality;

(b) the nature of that locality;

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 15th March, 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.

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(c) the time spent by him and his family in that locality; and

(d) any other matters that the Board considers relevant,

authorize the payment to his widow or to a member of his family of the whole or such part as the Board thinks lit of the expenses incurred in the conveyance of herself and her family (if any) or the member of the family and any other members of the family, as the case may be, and of the furniture and household effects of the family from that locality to another place.

“(2.) Where an officer retires or is retired from the Commonwealth Service and his family resided with him in the locality in which immediately before his retirement, he performed his duties, the Board may, if it thinks fit after having had regard to—

(a) the circumstances in which he was appointed, transferred or promoted to that locality;

(b) the nature of that locality;

(c) the time spent by him and his family in that locality; and

(d) any other matters that the Board considers relevant,

authorize the payment to him of the whole or such part as the Board sees fit, of the expenses incurred in the conveyance of him and his family (if any) and his furniture and household effects from that locality to the nearest capital city or to such other place as the Board, in any particular case, determines.

“(3.) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, an officer who died while on temporary transfer from one locality to another locality shall, if his family continue to reside in the first-mentioned locality, be deemed to have been performing his duties in the first-mentioned locality.”.

 

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