Repatriation (Staff) Regulations 1928 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1929. No. 130.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1929.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1929, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of November, 1929.

STONEHAVEN

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK ANSTEY

Minister in Charge of Repatriation.

 

Amendment of Repatriation (Staff) Regulations.

1. Regulation 14 of the Repatriation (Staff) Regulations is amended by inserting “(1)” after the figures 14.

2. Regulation 14 of the Repatriation (Staff) Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2). If at any time the Commission finds that a greater number of officers of a particular classification is employed than is necessary for the efficient working of the Branch Office, Institution, or Factory, any officer whom the Commission finds is in excess may be transferred to such other position of equal classification and salary as the officer is competent to fill, and if no such position is available, the officer may be transferred to a position of lower classification and salary. If no position is available for the officer, the Commission may retire him.”

3. After Repatriation (Staff) Regulation 72, the following new Regulation is inserted:—

Salary deductions for subsistence or lodging.

“72a. The Commission may from time to time determine the rates at which deductions shall be made from the salaries of officers who are provided with either subsistence or lodging, or with both.”

4. Sub-regulations (10) and (11) of Repatriation (Staff) Regulation 79 are repealed and the following sub-regulations inserted in their stead:—

“(10) Where a classified officer submits his resignation or is to be retired owing to reduction of staff or on account of ill-health, he may be granted recreation leave due to him in respect of the calendar year in which his services terminate, provided he has reached the anniversary in that year of his appointment to the classified service, or the anniversary of the date of commencement of employment where the officer had temporary service prior to, and continuous with, classified service. An officer who submits his resignation while on recreation leave for the current year may complete the leave before his services terminate.

“(11) Recreation leave which has been deferred from a previous year or years to suit departmental convenience may be granted prior to resignation or retirement:

Provided that where the appointment of a classified officer is being terminated on account of misconduct or unsatisfactory service, recreation leave shall not be granted.”

5. Sub-regulation (3) of Repatriation (Staff) Regulation 99 is repealed.

6. Sub-regulation (5) of Repatriation (Staff) Regulation 99 is repealed.

7. After Repatriation (Staff) Regulation 99, the following new regulation is inserted:—

Continuity of service.

“99a. The Commission shall determine the conditions under which employment may be regarded as continuous for the purpose of granting sick and recreation leave to temporary employees.”

8. Repatriation (Staff) Regulation 100 is amended:—

(a) by inserting in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (1), after the word “occasions”, the words “in the preceding twelve months”;

(b) by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2), after the word “occasions”, the words “in the preceding twelve months”.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.