Public Service Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

PUBLIC SERVICE ACT

PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS

Statutory Rules 1972 No. 14 (a)

Meal allowance.

1. Regulation 68 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the figures “ $1.45 ” and inserting in their stead the figures “ $1.80 ”.

Rates of travelling allowance.

2. Regulation 75a of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a)by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“ (1.) Subject to these Regulations, the rate at which travelling allowance is payable to an officer or employee is—

(a) if salary is payable to the officer or employee at a rate that is not less than Fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars per year—

(i) in respect of residence in a capital city—Twenty-five dollars per day; or

(ii) in any other case—Seventeen dollars per day; and

(b) if salary is payable to the officer or employee at a rate that is less than Fourteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars per year—

(i) in respect of residence in a capital city—Seventeen dollars sixty-five cents per day; or

(ii) in any other case—Thirteen dollars five cents per day.

“ (1a.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-regulation—

(a) if salary is payable to an officer or employee in accordance with a scale of rates per year, salary shall be deemed to be payable to the officer or employee at the maximum rate in that scale; and

(b) if an officer is in receipt of an allowance payable in pursuance of regulation 87 of these Regulations, salary shall be deemed to be payable to the officer at the rate per year ascertained by adding the rate per year at which salary is, or is to be deemed to be, payable to him and the rate per year at which that allowance is payable to him.”;

(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “ last preceding sub-regulation ” and inserting in their stead the words “ last two preceding sub-regulations ”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the figures “ $21.00 ” and inserting in their stead the figures “ $25.00 ”.

(a) Made under the Public Service Act 1922-1968 on 18 January 1972; approved by the Governor-General on 24 January 1972; notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 February 1972.

 

Allowances to Veterinary Officers and Meat Inspectors.

3. Regulation 79b of the Public Service Regulations is amended by omitting the table in sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following table:—

 

Class of officers	Rate per day for first week or for less than one week—		Rate per week after first week—
	In Capital Cities	Elsewhere	In Capital Cities	Elsewhere
$	$	$	$
Unmarried Veterinary Officers or Meat Inspectors..............................................................	17.65	13.05	..	..
Married Veterinary Officers or Meat Inspectors	17.65	13.05	45.00	40.00