Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1972 No.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1968.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1968, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulations.

Dated this Twenty-eighth day of January, 1972.

Chairman.

Commissioner.

Deputy of a commissioner.

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

Dated this twenty-fourth day of February, 1972.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Prime Minister.

Amendments of the Public Service Regulations 

District allowance.

1.—(1.) Regulation 101 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the word “ The ” (first occurring) and inserting in its stead the words “ Subject to the next two succeeding sub-regulations, the ”.

(2.) Regulation 101 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulations: —

“ (1a.) In the application of the last preceding sub-regulation after the commencement of this sub-regulation, localities shall, notwithstanding any classification effected after the commencement of this sub-regulation, be deemed to be classified, for the purpose of district allowances, in the grades into which they were classified immediately before the commencement of this sub-regulation.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  1972.

  Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations, see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1971, No. 3, and see also Statutory Rules 1971, Nos. 3, 4, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 25, 33, 34, 42, 47, 48, 49, 52, 68, 69, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91 and 111.

22050/71—Price 5c 94.1.1972

 

“ (1b.) Where an officer is living in a locality that is, by virtue of a classification effected after the commencement of this sub-regulation, classified for the purpose of district allowances in a grade specified in the first column of the following table and the rate specified in the second or third column, whichever is applicable to the officer, of that table opposite to that grade in the first column is higher than the rate at which district allowance would be payable to the officer but for this sub-regulation, the rate of district allowance applicable to the officer is that higher rate.

Grade	Married Officer	Unmarried Officer
$	$
I..................................................	170	80
II.................................................	310	160
III...............................................	500	270
IV...............................................	700	400
V................................................	910	530
VI...............................................	1,140	700”.

(3.) Regulation 101 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“ (5.) In this regulation, a reference to an officer shall be read as including a reference to an employee.”.

Temporary residence not to entitle officer or employee to district allowance.

2. Regulation 103 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a)by inserting after the word “ officers ” the words “ or employees ”; and

(b)by inserting after the word “ officer ” the words “ or employee ”.

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