Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1961. No. 116.

 

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 first day of September, 1961.

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 twenty-third day of September, 1961.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. R. DOWNER

for Prime Minister.

 

Amendment of the Public Service Regulations. 

After regulation 4 of the Public Service Regulations the following regulations are inserted:—

Delegation by the Board.

“4a.—(1.) The Board may, by instrument in writing, delegate to a member of the Board or to an officer, either generally or to the extent provided in the instrument of delegation, all or any of its powers and functions under these Regulations (except this power of delegation and any power or function that, by virtue of a provision of the Act, is required to be exercised or performed by the Board itself) so that the delegated powers and functions may be exercised and performed by the delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 5th October, 1961.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1961, No. 35; and see also Statutory Rules 1961, Nos. 68, 69, 83, 87, 99 and 114.

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“(2.) A delegation under this regulation is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Board.

Chairman of Board, &c., to have powers of Permanent Head under these Regulations.

“4b. The Chairman of the Board, the Auditor-General, the Commissioner of Taxation, the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the National Librarian have the powers of, or exercisable by, a Permanent Head under these Regulations, in respect of the branches of the Commonwealth Service respectively under their direct control.

Delegation by Permanent Head.

“4c.—(1.) A Permanent Head may, in respect of an officer or employee, or the officers or employees included in a class of officers or employees, by writing under his hand, delegate to an officer or, with the approval of the Board, to an employee, all or any of his powers and functions under these Regulations (except this power of delegation) so that the delegated powers and functions may be exercised by the delegate as fully and effectively as by the Permanent Head.

“(2.) A delegation under this regulation is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Permanent Head.

“(3.) For the purposes of this regulation, the Chairman of the Board, the Auditor-General, the Commissioner of Taxation, the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the National Librarian shall each be deemed to be a Permanent Head.”.

 

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