Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 263

 

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 thirtieth day of November 1979.

R. W. COLE

Chairman

J. C. TAYLOR

Commissioner

R. J. TAYLOR

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 fifth day of December 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Prime Minister

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 December 1979.

12312/79 Cat. No. —Recommended retail price 20c 13/19.7.1979

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS*

Reimbursement of fares— remote districts

1. Regulation 98 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and substituting the following sub-regulation:

“ (2) An officer whose dependants reside with him at his station may be granted an amount equal to the amount by which the cost of the return fares reasonably incurred for travel by his dependants between his station and the nearest capital city or destination of lesser distance exceeds $10.”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (3) “ A married officer ” and substituting “ An officer who has dependants ”;

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (4) “ An unmarried officer ” and substituting “ An officer who does not have dependants ”; and

(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (5) “ wife and children ” and substituting “ dependants ”.

Transitional

2. Notwithstanding the amendments effected by regulation 1, where a person who was an officer immediately before the commencement of these Regulations would, but for this regulation, be entitled under regulation 98 of the Public Service Regulations as amended by these Regulations to be reimbursed, in respect of travel undertaken by his wife or children at any time during the period commencing on the date of commencement of these Regulations and ending at the expiration of 31 March 1982, an amount that is less than the amount that he would have been entitled to be reimbursed in respect of that travel under regulation 98 of the Public Service Regulations if these Regulations had not been made, he is entitled to be reimbursed, in respect of that travel, the last-mentioned amount.

Rates and conditions of district allowance

3. Regulation 101 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following table:

Grade of locality	Officer with dependants	Officer without dependants
$	$
1....................................................................................	380	200
2....................................................................................	680	350
3....................................................................................	1,080	590
4....................................................................................	1,510	870
5....................................................................................	1,960	1,160
6....................................................................................	2,450	1,510

* Statutory Rules 1935 No. 18 as amended to date. For previous amendments see footnote * on page 2 to Statutory Rules 1979 No. 9 and see also Statutory Rules 1979 Nos. 9, 10, 68, 78, 142, 179, 219, 29, 261 and 262.

 

(b) by omitting sub-regulations (2), (3) and (4) and. substituting the following sub-regulation;

“ (2) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1), an officer who has dependants is entitled to be paid district allowance as an officer with dependants in accordance with the table in sub-regulation (1) only where his dependants reside with him in the locality in respect of which the district allowance is payable.”.

Transitional

4. Notwithstanding the amendment effected by regulation 3, where a person who was an officer immediately before the commencement of these Regulations would, but for this regulation, be entitled to be paid district allowance under regulation 101 of the Public Service Regulations as amended by these Regulations at a rate that is less than the rate at which he would have been entitled to be paid district allowance under regulation 101 of the Public Service Regulations if these Regulations had not been made, he is entitled to be paid district allowance at the second-mentioned rate until such time as—

(a) he ceases to be entitled to be paid district allowance under regulation 401 of the Public Service Regulations as in force at any time after the commencement of these Regulations; or

(b) he becomes entitled to be paid district allowance under regulation 101 of the Public- Service Regulations as so in force at a rate that exceeds the second-mentioned rate,

whichever first occurs.

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