Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1978 No. 33

REGULATION 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 Regulation.

Dated this seventh day of March, 1978.

Chairman

Commissioner

Commissioner.

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

Dated this ninth day of March, 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Aboriginal Affairs for and on behalf of the Prime Minister

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 16 March 1978.

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AMENDMENT OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS*

After Part VIIa of the Public Service Regulations the following Part is inserted:

“ PART VIIb—TRANSFER OR PROMOTION OF CERTAIN PERSONS EMPLOYED BY LEGAL AID COMMISSIONS OF STATES OR TERRITORIES TO OFFICES IN AUSTRALIAN PUBLIC SERVICE

Modification of Act

“ 120j. In the application of section 50 of the Act by virtue of section 23 of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Act 1977, the first-mentioned section is modified as follows:

(a) omit sub-section (2) and substitute the following subsection:

‘ (2) Where it is proposed to transfer a person who is an eligible person for the purposes of Part IV of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Act 1977 to an office in the Australian Public Service under the provisions that are the applied provisions of the Public Service Act 1922 within the meaning of that Part, the transfer shall be subject to the approval of the Board.’; and

(b) omit from sub-section (2a)’ the Permanent Head of the Department from which the officer is to be transferred and, upon being so notified, the last-mentioned Permanent Head shall forthwith release the officer ’ and substitute ‘ the person whose transfer has been approved ’.

Application of Regulations to eligible persons

“ 120k. These Regulations have effect in relation to a person who is an eligible person for the purposes of Part IV of the Commonwealth Legal Aid Commission Act 1977 as if each reference in regulations 97 and 97d and Part VII to an officer included, so far as is applicable, a reference to such a person.”.

 

* Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1978, No. 7 and see also Statutory Rules 1978, Nos. 7, 8, and 9.

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