Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1974 No. 242

REGULATION UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1973.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1973, hereby make, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulation.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of November, 1974.

Chairman.

Commissioner.

Commissioner.

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

Dated this tenth day of December, 1974.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL BOWEN

Special Minister of State for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

 

Amendment of the Public Service Regulations 

After regulation 43 of the Public Service Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Prescribed cases and circumstances for the purposes of sub-section 91 (4) of the Act.

“43a. (1) For the purposes of sub-section 91 (4) of the Act, the following cases or circumstances are prescribed:—

(a) where the company or incorporated society in respect of which the officer seeks permission to act as a director is a company or incorporated society of the type usually referred to as a ‘permanent

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 23 December 1974

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18 as amended to date, For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations see foot-note   to Statutory Rules 1974, No. 5 and see also Statutory Rules 1974, Nos. 5, 15, 16 and 51. /

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building society’ or ‘credit union’ and is solely owned or operated by a public service association, or by trustees acting for on behalf of a public service association;

(b) where the company or incorporated society in respect of which the officer seeks permission to act as a director is a co-operative society which is registered under the law of a State or elsewhere, being a company or incorporated society that does not enter into contracts for the supply of goods or services to Australia;

(c) where the company or incorporated society in respect of which the officer seeks permission to act as a director is a company or incorporated society formed or carried on—

(i) for a religious, educational, benevolent or charitable purpose;

(ii) for the purpose of promoting or encouraging literature, science or art;

(iii) for the purpose of recreation or amusement; or

(iv) for the purpose of beautifying or improving a community centre or other place to which the public has access, whether of the payment of a fee or not,

other than a company or incorporated society—

(v) referred to in paragraph (d); or

(vi) formed or carried on for the purpose of trading or securing pecuniary profit to its shareholders or members;

(d) where the company in respect of which the officer seeks permission to act as a director is a company controlled by the trustees of the Australian Postal Institute; or

(e) where the company in respect of which the officer seeks permission to act as a director is a company incorporated solely for the purpose of becoming the owner of land on which a building, divided into flats or other residential units, is created, the right to the occupation of one of which is vested in the officer under the form of title usually referred to as ‘company title’.

“(2) In this regulation, ‘public service association’ means an organization within the meaning of the Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1973.”.

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