Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory

Rules1993No. 196 1

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Public Service Regulations 2(Amendment)

  

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Public Service Act 1922.

 

Dated 6 July 1993.

 

  BILL HAYDEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

  

LAURIE BRERETON

Minister for Industrial Relations

for and on behalf of the

Prime Minister

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Public Service Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

 

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts InterpretationAct 1901, s. 48]

 

2.   New regulation 71aa

2.1   After regulation 71a, insert:

 

Declaration for the purposes of subsection 33 (3) of the Act: certain matters related to appointment, transfer or promotion

 “71aa. (1)   In this regulation:

‘Electoral Commissioner’ has the same meaning as in the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

 

 “(2) Discrimination on the ground of political affiliation in relation to the exercise of a power under the Act in respect of:

• (a)

  the appointment or transfer of a person to an office in, or as an unattached officer to; or

• (b)

  the promotion of a person to an office in;

the Australian Electoral Commission is declared not to be discrimination against a person for the purposes of subsection 33 (3) of the Act, if:

• (c)

  the discrimination is essential for the effective performance of the duties:

   (i) in the case of an unattached officer—that the person will perform for the purposes of the Commission; and

   (ii) in any other case—of the office;

• (d)

  the discrimination is not unlawful under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 or the Sex Discrimination Act 1984; and

• (e)

  the Electoral Commissioner has determined in writing that those duties could not be performed by a person who is actively engaged in electoral or political affairs; and

• (f)

  the Electoral Commissioner has requested in writing from the person a written undertaking that he or she will refrain from active engagement in electoral or political affairs when performing the duties; and

• (g)

  the person has not given the Electoral Commissioner an undertaking referred to in paragraph (f).”.

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NOTES

 

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 July 1993.

2. Statutory Rules 1935 No. 18 as amended by 1935  Nos. 44, 72, 78 and 119; 1936 Nos. 5, 55, 76, 88, 106, 116, 143 and 154; 1937 Nos. 11, 25, 54, 60, 74, 78, 87, 100, 103 and 118; 1938 Nos. 35, 41, 79, 105, 110 and 113; 1939 Nos. 4, 36, 52, 62, 65, 105, 154, 167 and 168; 1940 Nos. 23, 74, 110, 143,and 247;

 NOTES—continued

 

1941 Nos. 36, 42, 127, 148, 158, 168, 191, 224, 284 and 310; 1942 Nos. 45, 167, 174, 182, 225, 320, 465, 466 and 552; 1943 Nos. 271, 272 and 301; 1944 Nos. 6, 132, 138 and 143; 1945 Nos. 15, 35, 115, 118 and 124; 1946 Nos. 22, 68, 120, 124 and 153; 1947 Nos. 1, 2, 122, 123, 134, 146, 147, 158 and 163; 1948 Nos. 32, 49, 68, 71, 97, 149, 157 and 158; 1949 Nos. 1,

  81, 84 and 98; 1950 Nos. 73, 88, 99 and 100; 1951 Nos. 13, 33, 77 and 110; 1952 Nos. 9, 19, 51 and 94; 1953 Nos. 2, 20, 47, 51, 70 and 93; 1954 Nos. 12, 57, 94, 103 and 126; 1955 Nos. 43, 48 and 67; 1956 Nos. 48, 49, 50 and 133; 1957 Nos. 22 and 58; 1958 Nos. 37 and 57; 1959 Nos. 11, 16, 42, 68 and 99; 1960 Nos. 12, 18, 33, 73, 89 and 93; 1961 No. 35; 1961 No. 68 (as am. by 1962 No. 39; 1964 No. 53 and 1966 No. 43); 1961 Nos. 69, 83, 87, 99, 114, 116 and 125; 1961 No. 136 (as am. by 1962 No. 91);1961 No. 147; 1962 Nos. 1, 21, 33, 39, 84 and 91; 1963 Nos. 4, 5, 20, 22, 33, 41, 42, 55, 59, 65, 81, 82, 106, 108, 151, 152 and 153; 1964 Nos. 18, 40, 45, 46, 49, 53, 72, 88, 96, 109, 110, 118, 120, 131, 140, 147, 150, 151 and 161; 1965 Nos. 4, 12, 19, 23, 30, 44, 48, 71, 75, 76, 149, 172 and 176; 1966Nos. 1, 16, 17, 43, 71, 90, 91, 112, 120, 121, 123, 126, 130, 136, 160, 165, 166 and 183; 1967 Nos. 1, 2, 7, 16, 37, 57, 61, 69, 99, 141, 164 and 169; 1968 Nos. 6, 11, 12, 22, 47, 55, 66, 73, 107, 114, 115, 130, 133, 134, 136, 138, 147, 148, 156, 165 and 166; 1969 Nos. 12, 13, 16, 17, 25, 42, 56, 61, 62, 83, 86, 87, 88, 95, 115 120, 121, 122, 123, 134, 141, 142, 146, 147, 160, 163, 166, 168, 175, 193, 202 and 215; 1970 Nos. 7, 13, 14, 19, 29, 42, 57, 58, 81, 85, 86, 93, 110, 11, 125, 128, 129, 137, 141, 147, 148, 149, 163, 164, 181, 183, 198, 199, 206 and 210; 1971 Nos. 3, 4, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25, 33, 34, 42, 47, 48, 49, 52, 68, 69, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 111, 124, 133, 146, 147, 150, 159, 161 and 175; 1972 Nos. 14, 26, 53, 132 and 163; 1973 Nos. 32, 34, 37, 46, 47, 73, 87, 113, 166, 176, 184 and 265; 1973 No. 280 (as am. by 1974 No. 73); 1974 Nos. 5, 15, 16, 51, 73, 98, 99, 119, 135, 143, 149, 168, 169, 204, 223, 242 and 261; 1975 Nos. 17, 18, 33, 54, 72, 132, 150, 174, 184, 194, 212, 217 and 220; 1976 Nos. 17, 18, 71, 95, 96, 116, 152, 153, 154, 155, 167, 178, 180, 182, 229, 231, 148, 300, 302 and 304; 1977 Nos. 9, 12, 15, 57, 62, 74, 75, 94, 119, 194, 195, 212, 222, 245, 257 and 259; 1978 Nos. 7, 8, 9, 33, 84, 109, 154, 205, 285 and 286; 1979 Nos.  9, 10, 68, 78, 142, 179, 219, 259, 261, 262, 263 and 264; 1980 Nos. 18, 26, 52, 89, 97, 103, 145, 226, 227, 231, 272, 344, 364, 402 and 403; 1981 Nos. 9, 34, 35, 44, 51, 79, 109, 306, 307, 350 and 357; 1982 Nos. 30, 40, 41, 54, 61, 75, 87, 257, 290, 336, 390, 392, 293 and 394; 1983 Nos. 4, 5, 9, 30, 35, 36, 55, 57, 91, 98, 109, 110, 112, 119, 138, 219, 295, 267 and 311; 1984 Nos. 14, 54, 80, 107, 112, 140, 141, 142, 211, 234, 247, 253, 272, 400, 436, 468, 469, 470 and 471; 1985 Nos. 7, 29, 34, 65, 108, 177, 208, 298, 334 and 383; 1986 Nos. 7, 124, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 155, 187, 256, 314, 340, 341 and 369; 1987 Nos. 25, 38, 90, 137, 157, 180, 270 and 294; 1988 Nos. 151, 224, 245, 365 and 366; 1989 Nos. 58, 99, 112, 144, 179 and 399; 1990 Nos. 214 and 277; 1991 Nos. 286, 338 and 477; 1992 Nos. 53, 65, 303, 324 and 409; 1993 Nos. 27, 132 and 146.