Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1973 No. 265

REGULATIONS 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 Regulations.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of November, 1973.

A. S. COOLEY

Chairman.

D. LINEHAN

Commissioner.

F. C. NORDECK

Commissioner.

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

Dated this eleventh day of December, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

LIONEL BOWEN

Postmaster-General

for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

Amendments of the Public Service Regulations 

Conditions of transfer or promotion from Fourth Division to Third Division.

1. Regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (bc) of sub-regulation (1) the word “or”;

(b) by adding at the end of sub-regulation (1) the following paragraphs:—

“(d) the officer has in not less than four approved subjects, each of which is a subject in respect of which the Board of Secondary School Studies of Queensland grants Senior Certificates or a subject in respect of which examinations at Senior Examination level were

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 19 December, 1973.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1973, No. 32, and see also Statutory Rules 1973, Nos. 32, 34, 37, 46,47,73, 87, 113, 166, 176 and 184.

conducted by the Public Examination Board of the University of Queensland in a year before the year 1973, attained—

(i) in the case of a subject in which the officer has completed four semester units—an average semester grade of not less than Grade 4;

(ii) in the case of a subject in which an officer undertook an examination in 1973 or a subsequent year—a grade of not less than Grade 4;

(iii) in the case of a subject in respect of which the officer undertook an examination in a year before the year 1967—Grade C or a higher grade; or

(iv) in the case of a subject in respect of which the officer undertook an examination in any year from and including the year 1967 to and including the year 1972—Grade 4 or a higher grade; or

“(e) that the officer is qualified for admission to a course of studies or instruction for a degree at an Australian college of advanced education.”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (1aa) the words “paragraph (c) of the last preceding sub-regulation” and substituting the words “ paragraphs (c) and (e) of sub-regulation (1) ”.

Conditions of transfer or promotion from Fourth Division to Third Division.

2. Regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by inserting in the table in sub-regulation (1a) after the words “Victoria—” the words—

“Higher School Certificate Examination................................................................................................	Grade D or a higher grade
Tertiary Orientation Year Examination..............................................................................................	Pass
College of Advanced Education Diploma Preliminary Year Examination...................................................................
	Pass”.

Conditions of transfer or promotion from Fourth Division to Third Division.

3. Regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting from the table in sub-regulation (1a) the words—

“Queensland—
Senior Examination held before the year 1967...............	Level C or a higher level
Senior Examination held in the year 1967 or a subsequent year...........................................................	Level 4 or higher level”.

Conditions of transfer or promotion from Fourth Division to Third Division.

4. (1) Regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (1b), (1c), (1d), (1e) and (1f) and substituting the following sub-regulations:—

“(1b) The Board may, by determination of general application published in the Gazette, determine that, in circumstances specified in the determination, a subject in which an examination is held as part of a prescribed examination, or of an examination referred to in paragraph (ba) or (bc) of sub-regulation (1), or a subject referred to in paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1), is not to count as an approved subject for the purpose of paragraph (b), (ba), (bc) or (d), as the case may be, of sub-regulation (1).

“(1C) A pass in an examination in a subject held as part of a prescribed examination, or of an examination referred to in paragraph (ba) or (bc) of sub-regulation (1), or the attainment in a subject referred to in paragraph (d) of sub-regulation (1) of a grade specified in that paragraph in relation to that subject, does not count as a pass in an examination in an approved subject for the purpose of paragraph (b), (ba) or (bc), or as the attainment of the specified grade in an approved subject for the purpose of paragraph (d), as the case may be, of that sub-regulation if, in accordance with the conditions determined under sub-regulation (1B), the subject is not to count as an approved subject for the purpose of that paragraph.”.

(2) A determination under sub-regulation (1B) of regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of these Regulations continues in force as if made under sub-regulation (1B) of regulation 112 of the Public Service Regulations as amended by these Regulations.