Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 41

Public Service Regulations2 (Amendment)

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922,hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulations.

Dated 4 January 1983.

R.W. COLE

Chairman

R. J. YOUNG

Commissioner

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulations.

Dated 19 January 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN.

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Aviation for and on behalf of the Prime Minister

 

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Seniority

1. Regulation 110 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “The relative” and substituting “Subject to sub-regulation (6), the relative”; and

(b) by inserting after sub-regulation (5) the following sub-regulation:

“(6) For the purpose of transfer or promotion to an office, being an office of—

(a) Assistant Customs Officer;

(b) Customs Officer, Band 1;

(c) Customs Officer, Band 2;

(d) Customs Officer, Band 3;

(e) Customs Officer, Band 4;

(f) Customs Officer, Band 5;

(g) Customs Officer, Band 6; or

(h) Customs Officer, Band 7,

the seniority of an officer who was appointed to the service before the date of commencement of this sub-regulation and who, immediately before his transfer or promotion to that office, held one of those offices shall be determined by reference to the date of commencement of this sub-regulation as if that date were the date to which, but for this sub-regulation, reference would be made in determining the seniority or relative seniority of that officer.”.

Directions to perform temporarily duties of an office other than officer’s own office

2. Regulation 116 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (2) the following sub-regulation:

“(2a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulation (2), if, in the selection of an officer to whom a direction under sub-regulation (1) is to be given to perform temporarily the duties of an office referred to in sub-regulation 110 (6), it is necessary to select an officer of a classification lower than the office in relation to the duties of which the direction is to be given, the Chief Officer shall make the selection of an officer from officers who occupy such offices of lower classification by selecting the officer who is the more or the most efficient officer available.”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (6) (a) “or” and substituting the following paragraph:

“(aa) in the case of a selection of an officer to perform the duties of an office referred to in sub-regulation 110 (6)—on the ground of superior efficiency; or”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 27 January 1983.

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; 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 Nos. 35, 68, 69, 83, 87, 99, 114, 116, 125, 136 and 147; 1962 Nos. 1, 21, 33, 39, 84 and 91; 1963 Nos. 4, 5, 20, 22, 33, 41, 42, 55, 59, 65, 81, 82, 86, 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; 1966 Nos. 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, 111, 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, 265 and 280; 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, 248, 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, 337, 390, 392, 393 and 394.

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