Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

 

Statutory Rules

1974 No. 143

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 makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulation.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of June, 1974.

Chairman.

Commissioner.

Deputy of a Commissioner.

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

Dated this second day of July, 1974.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Manufacturing Industry

for and on behalf of the

Prime Minister.

Amendments of the Public Service Regulations 

Rates and conditions of district allowance.

Regulation 101 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

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

Grade	Married Officer	Unmarried Officer
$	$
1....................................................................................................	210	110
2....................................................................................................	380	195
3....................................................................................................	610	330
4....................................................................................................	850	490
5....................................................................................................	1,110	650
6....................................................................................................	1,390	850

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 12 August 1974.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date, For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1974, No. 5, and see also Statutory Rules 1974, Nos. 5, 15, 16, 51, 73, 98 and 99.

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and

(b) by omitting sub-regulations (1a) and (1b) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—

“ (1a) Where the classification for the purpose of district allowance of a locality is lowered in the period of 14 days commencing on the date of commencement of this sub-regulation or is lowered after that commencement, the rate at which district allowance is payable to an officer residing in that locality on and after the date of commencement of this sub-regulation is the rate applicable under sub-regulation (1) or—

(a) in the case of an officer who was residing in that locality immediately before the commencement of this sub-regulation —the rate that would have been payable to the officer under the provisions of this regulation that were in force immediately before that commencement if those provisions had continued in force; or

(b) in the case of an officer who commences to reside in that locality after that commencement—the rate that would have been payable to that officer if he had been residing in that locality immediately before that commencement,

whichever is the higher.

“ (1b) Where—

(a) a locality has, before the commencement of this sub-regulation; been removed from the list of localities classified for the purposes of district allowance;

(b) an officer who was residing in that locality immediately before the commencement of this sub-regulation continues to reside in that locality after that commencement; and

(c) the officer was entitled to payment of district allowance in accordance with the provisions of this regulation as in force immediately before that commencement,

the officer shall, notwithstanding the removal of that locality from that list, continue to be entitled to receive district allowance at the rate at which it was payable to the officer immediately before that commencement for the period commencing on that commencement and ending on—

(d) the date on which the officer ceases to reside in that locality; or

(e) the expiration of the period of one: year after that commencement,

whichever first occurs.”.

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