Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

 

STATUTORY RULES.

1961. No. 83.

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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 eighth day of May, 1961.

F. H. WHEELER

Chairman.

K. E. GRAINGER

Commissioner.

J. E. COLLINGS

Commissioner.

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I, THE DEPUTY OF THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulations.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June, 1961.

E. W. WOODWARD

Deputy of the Administrator.

By His Excellency's Command,

A. R. DOWNER

for Prime Minister.

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AMENDMENTS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS. 

Commencement.

1. Regulations 2, 3, 4 and 5 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1960.

Prescribed defence purposes.

2. Regulation 51 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs:—

“(c) annual training as a member of the Citizen Naval Forces, the Citizen Military Forces or the Citizen Air Force; and

(d) attendance at a school, class or course of instruction conducted for the training of members of the Citizen Naval Forces, the Citizen Military Forces or the Citizen Air Force.”.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 6th July, 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 and 69.

3644/60.—PRICE 5D.

Periods of leave—Citizen Forces.

3. Regulation 51B of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (1.) the word “and”;

(b) by omitting paragraphs (c) and (d) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraph:—

“(c) where the officer or employee is a member of the Citizen Air Force—sixteen days inclusive of Saturdays and Sundays.”;

(c) by omitting sub-regulations (3.) and (4.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Where the Commanding Officer of an officer or employee certifies in writing that it is necessary for the officer or employee to attend for the purposes of annual obligatory training for a period in addition to those specified in either of the last two preceding sub-regulations, the Chief Officer may grant leave of absence to the officer or employee for a further period not exceeding four days in any one year.”; and

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (5.) the words “paragraphs (c), (d) or (e)” and inserting in their stead the words “paragraph (c) or (d)”.

Certificate of engaging in Defence Service.

4. Regulation 51D of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting the words “paragraphs (c), (d) or (e)” and inserting in their stead the words “paragraph (c) or (d)”.

5.Regulation 51E of the Public Service Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Pay.

“51E.—(1.) Leave of absence granted to an officer or employee to engage in a service specified in paragraph (c) or (d) of sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 51 of these Regulations for a period or periods not exceeding, in any one year, the total of the several periods specified in sub-regulations (1.), (2.) and (3.) of regulation 51B of these Regulations shall be granted on full salary and without deduction from recreation leave.

“(2.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation, ‘salary’ includes an allowance specified in paragraph (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (k), (l), (m) or (n) of regulation 62 of these Regulations and, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, an allowance payable under regulation 87 of these Regulations.

“(3.) An allowance payable under regulation 87 of these Regulations shall not be included as salary for the purposes of this regulation unless—

(a) the allowance has been paid for not less than one month before the date on which the officer or employee is granted leave under section 72 of the Act; and

(b) the officer would have been paid the allowance if he had not been granted the leave of absence.".

Recording and payment of overtime.

6.Regulation 67 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

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  (a) by omitting from sub-regulation (6.) the words “sub-regulations (6A.), (6B.) and (6C.)” and inserting in their stead the words “sub-regulations (6A.), (6B.), (6C.) and (6E.)”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (6D.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(6E.) Where an officer who, by reason of having performed overtime duty, is released, otherwise than in pursuance of sub-regulation (10.) of this regulation, from his ordinary duty for a period not exceeding the period for which he performed the overtime duty, the amount payable to the officer for the overtime duty shall be reduced by the amount payable to the officer in respect of the period for which the officer has been released from ordinary duty.”.

Meal allowances.

7. Regulation 68 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting paragraphs (c) and (d) of sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in their stead the following paragraphs:—

“(c) is required to perform duty extending beyond a meal break on a day on which, apart from the requirement, he would not perform duty and is not entitled to payment for that meal break; or

“(d) is rostered for duty on six days of the week and is required to perform extra duty after two o'clock in the afternoon on the day allowed to him as a weekly half-holiday after a meal break and is not entitled to payment for that meal break,”.

Sunday duty.

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  8. Regulation 70 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (6A.) the words “Department of Trade and Customs and the Department of Commerce and Agriculture” and inserting in their stead the words “Department of Customs and Excise and the Department of Primary Industry”.

Higher duties.

9.Regulation 87 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (13.) the word and figure “sub-regulation (6.)” and inserting in their stead the word and figure “sub-regulation (7.)”.

Allowances to persons sleeping on office premises.

10. Regulation 95 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “Two pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Three pounds”;

(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “officer”, the words “or employee”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Where the Chief Officer considers that, in a particular case the maximum amount payable under the last preceding sub-regulation should be increased by reason of—

(a) the extent of the telephone duties performed; or

(b) the special circumstances of the case,

he shall report the matter to the Board and the Board may determine the allowance to be paid to the officer or employee.”.

Education allowance—Light keepers.

11. Regulation 95C of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “seven and sixteen” and inserting in their stead the words “six and seventeen”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “Sixty-five pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “One hundred pounds”.

Partial reimbursement of fares of certain officers.

12. Regulation 98AA of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

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

“(b) is in receipt of a salary not exceeding—

 (i) in the case of a male officer—£685 per annum; or

(ii) in the case of a female officer—£848 per annum; and”; and

(b) by omitting paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (5.).

Age limitation for Lockers’ positions.

13. Regulation 112C of the Public Service Regulations is repealed.

Temporary transfer.

14. Regulation 116 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1C.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(1D.) An appeal under this regulation does not lapse by reason only of the fact that the appellant is subsequently temporarily transferred for a period not exceeding one month to an office having the same classification or a higher classification than the office to which the temporary transfer that is subject to the appeal has been made.”.

15. Regulation 117B of the Public Service Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Returns of vacancies and unattached officers.

“117B. The Permanent Head shall, as soon as practicable after the expiration of each period of six months ending on the thirty-first day of March and the thirtieth day of September in each year, furnish to the Board a return showing—

(a) particulars of each office in the Department that is vacant at the end of that period; and

(b) particulars of unattached officers performing duty in that Department.”.

Third schedule –Form A.

16. The Third Schedule to the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting Form A and inserting in its stead the following form:— 

FORM A. Regulation 141C.

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS.

(a)Insert “Third” or “Fourth”. (b) Insert “State of” or “The Australian Capital Territory.” (c) Insert address of the Returning Officer. (d)Insert the Christian name or names and the surname of the candidate, the office held by him and the Department in which he is employed.

NOMINATION OF A CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION AS DIVISIONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE (a)  DIVISION ON THE APPEAL BOARD PROVIDED TO HEAR APPEALS AGAINST PUNISHMENTS UNDER SECTION 55 OF THE ACT FOR THE (b)  .

To the Returning Officer for(b)

Commonwealth Electoral Office,(c)

We, the undersigned officers of the (a) Division, being entitled to vote

at the election of the Divisional Representative of that Division for the (b)

hereby nominate (d) for election as Divisional Representative of that

Division for the (b) .

Dated this	day of		, 19 .
Signature of Nominators.	Full Name (in block letters).	Office held by Nominators.	Department in which Nominators are employed.

Third Schedule.—Form C.

17.The Third Schedule to the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting Form C and inserting in its stead the following form:—

FORM C. Regulation 141F.

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA.

PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS.

Returning Officer's Initials.

(a) Insert “Third” or “Fourth”. (b) Insert “State of or” or “Australian Capital Territory”.

ELECTION OF DIVISIONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE (a)  DIVISION ON THE APPEAL BOARD PROVIDED TO HEAR APPEALS AGAINST PUNISHMENTS UNDER SECTION 55 OF THE ACT FOR THE (b) .

BALLOT-PAPER.

Directions.—Mark your vote on this ballot-paper by placing the number 1 in the square opposite the name of the candidate for whom you vote as first preference and the numbers 2, 3, 4 (and so on, as the case requires) in the squares opposite the names of the candidates so as to indicate the order of your preference for them, fold the ballot-paper and place it in the ballot-paper envelope which should then be sealed. Then complete and sign the declaration printed on the ballot-paper envelope and send that envelope containing the ballot-paper by post or otherwise to the Returning Officer so as to reach him not later than 12 o'clock noon on the day of  , 19 .

CANDIDATES.

NAME.	DESIGNATION.	BRANCH.	DEPARTMENT.
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By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.