Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1981 No. 307

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922*

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 this fourth day of September 1981.

Chairman

Commissioner

Deputy of a 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 this twenty-first day of October 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Industrial Relations for and on behalf of the Prime Minister

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 October 1981.

S.R. No. 11/80 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 20c 11/16.2.1981

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS*

Education costs allowances

1. Regulation 97e of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (8) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“(8) Where—

(a) in a year a prescribed officer is entitled to boarding allowance in respect of an eligible child, being an eligible child who boards and resides at the secondary school at which he is undertaking his course of secondary education; and

(b) that secondary school is a school other than the secondary school (in this sub-regulation referred to as the eligible child’s ‘previous school’) at which the eligible child was enrolled, or proposed to enrol, immediately before the prescribed officer was notified of his proposed transfer,

there is payable to the prescribed officer in that year, in addition to boarding allowance calculated in accordance with paragraph (7) (a), a tuition allowance of an amount equal to—

(c) if paragraph (d) does not apply—so much of the amount in dollars calculated in accordance with the formula—

as does not exceed the amount in dollars calculated in accordance with the formula—

; or

(d) if the total amount to the nearest dollar of the fees and compulsory charges (if any) that, at the date of transfer of the prescribed officer, would have been payable by the prescribed officer in respect of the provision during that year of tuition for the eligible child if the eligible child had undertaken during that year his course of secondary education at the eligible child’s previous school

 

* Statutory Rules 1935 No. 18 as amended to date. For previous amendments see note to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 9 and see also Statutory Rules 1981 Nos. 9, 34, 35, 44, 51, 79, 109 and 306.

 

exceeds $145—so much of the amount in dollars calculated in accordance with the formula—

as does not exceed the amount in dollars calculated in accordance with the formula—

where—

A is the amount to the nearest dollar equal to the sum of the fees and compulsory charges (if any) levied on, or incurred by, the prescribed officer in the year in respect of the provision of tuition for the eligible child at the secondary school (other than so much of those fees and charges as is levied or incurred exclusively in respect of tuition provided before the date of transfer of the prescribed officer);

B is the number of weeks (not including any week, or part of a week, preceding the date of transfer of the prescribed officer) in the year during which the eligible child receives tuition at the secondary school;

C is the number of weeks in the year during which tuition is given to secondary students at the secondary school; and

D is the amount to the nearest dollar referred to in paragraph (d).”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (15) all words after “secondary education” and substituting “at that school than at a secondary school in the locality to which the prescribed officer has been transferred”.

Saving

2. Notwithstanding the amendments effected by regulation 1, the provisions of sub-regulation 97e (8) of the Public Service Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations apply in relation to the payment to a prescribed officer of tuition allowance in respect of the provision of tuition for an eligible child of the prescribed officer before the commencement of these Regulations.

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