Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1953. No. 93.

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REGULATION UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1953.*

WHEREAS it is provided by sub-section (3.) of section thirty of the Public Service Act 1922-1953 that the regulations may, notwithstanding the classification of offices, provide for the variation of rates of salary according to variations in the cost of living:

And whereas the regulations in force immediately before the commencement of the following regulation make provision for variations of rates of salaries, being variations according to variations in the cost of living, in the manner specified in the following regulation:

And whereas it is desirable that those variations should continue to have effect until other provision for variations of rates of salary according to variations in the cost of living is made:

Now therefore the Public Service Board, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on it by the Public Service Act 1922-1953, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulation.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of October, 1953.

W. E. DUNK,

Chairman.

G. G. SUTCLIFFE,

Commissioner.

K E. GRAINGER,

Deputy of a Commissioner.

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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 eleventh day of November, 1953.

W. J. SLIM

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Prime Minister.

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* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th November, 1953.

4347.—Price 3d.

Amendment of the Public Service Regulations. 

Part VIa. of the Public Service Regulations is repealed and the following Part inserted in its stead :—

" Part VIa.—Variations of Salary according to Variations in this Cost of Living—Officers of the Second, Third and Fourth Divisions.

Variations of salary according to variations in the cost of living.

" 106a.—(1.) The rate of salary payable to an officer included in a class of officers specified in the first column of the table in this sub-regulation shall be increased, by reason of variations in the cost of living, by the amount per annum specified in the second column of that table opposite to the' description of that class of officer.

First Column.

Class of Officer.

Second Column.

Amount of Increase.

Per annum

£

Male officers aged 21 years or over.................................

198

Male officers aged 20 years ............................................

178

Male officers aged 19 years.............................................

149

Male officers aged 18 years.............................................

119

Male officers under 18 years of age.................................

 99

Female officers aged 21 years or over..............................

149

Female officers aged 20 years.........................................

143

Female officers aged 19 years.........................................

129

Female officers aged 18 years.........................................

109

Female officers under 18 years of age..............................

 99

" (2.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding sub-regulation—

(a) the salary payable to an officer who has not attained the age of twenty-one years shall be increased as if that officer had attained that age if—

(i) he occupies an office for which the rate of salary payable to an officer under twenty-one years of age is prescribed, but, having complied with a condition of advancement determined by the Board in pursuance of section 32 of the Act in respect of that office, he is paid the rate payable to an officer who has attained the age of twenty-one years prescribed for that office; or

(ii) he occupies an office in respect of which a rate of salary payable to an officer according to ago is not prescribed; and

(b) the salary of an officer who has not attained the age of twenty years and is an officer referred to in sub-regulation (9.) of regulation 105 of these Regulations shall be increased as if that officer had attained the age of twenty years.

" (3.) For the purposes of this regulation, ' officer ' means an officer of the Second, Third or Fourth Division.".

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  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1953, No. 2, and see also Statutory Rules 1953, Nos. 20, 47, 51 and 70.

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By Authority : L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.