Repatriation (Staff) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1931. No. 67.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1930.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Australian Soldiers’Repatriation Act 1920-1930, to come into operation on and from the sixteenth day of April, 1931.

Dated this fifth day of June, 1931.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command

J. McNEILL

Minister for Repatriation.

 

Amendment of Repatriation (Staff) Regulations

(Statutory Rules 1928, No. 60, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 62 of the Repatriation (Staff) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Variations of salary on account of variations in cost of living.

“62.—(1.) Where the Commonwealth Statistician notifies in the Government Gazette the index number ascertained in report of food, groceries, and housing (rent of all houses) combined, for the six capital cities of the Commonwealth for the twelve months preceding the first day of April in any year and the index number so notified is loss than 1,672 or more than 1,744, salaries payable under the classifications of staffs at branch offices, institutions, and factories shall be varied in the following manner:—

(i) In the case of officers under 21 years of age—

By increase or decrease of £3 per annum in respect of each 48 points or portion thereof by which respectively the index number exceeds 1,744 or is less than 1,672.

(ii) In the case of adult female officers—

By increase or decrease of £4 per annum in respect of each 48 points or portion thereof by which respectively the index number exceeds 1,744 or is less than 1,672.

(iii) In the case of adult male officers—

By increase or decrease of £6 per annum in respect of each 48 points or portion thereof by which respectively the index number exceeds 1,744 or is less than 1,672.

(2.) Any variation made in pursuance of the last preceding sub-regulation shall take effect on the first day of July next following the notification in the Government Gazette of the index number, and shall continue in force for a period of twelve months.

1618.—Price 3d.

 

Temporary decreases.

(3.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation, salaries payable under the classifications of staffs of branch offices, institutions, and factories shall, subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, be varied in the following manner of and from the sixteenth day of April, 1931, up to and including the thirtieth day of June, 1931—

(i) In the case of officers under 21 years of age—

by decrease at the rate of £9 per annum;

(ii) In the case of adult female officers—

by decrease at the rate of £12 per annum; and

(iii) In the case of adult male officers—

by decrease at the rate of £18 per annum.

Temporary decreases of salaries affected by Income Tax (Salaries) Act

(4.) Where any periodical payment of the salary of an officer would, if no decrease in pursuance of sub-regulations (1.) and. (3.) of this regulation were effected, be of such amount as would be subject, under the IncomeTax (Salaries) Assessment Act 1930 and the Income Tax (Salaries) Act 1930 or under any Acts amending or in substitution of those Acts, to a deduction by way of income tax—

(a) of not less than ten per centum of that payment—no decrease in respect of that payment shall be made under either of those sub-regulations; and

(b) of less than ten per centum of that payment—no decrease shall be made under either of those sub-regulations in respect of that payment except—

(i)such amount as would, together with the deduction which would be so made by way of income tax, reduce the payment by ten per centum; or

(ii) the amount by which the payment would, except for this sub-regulation, have been decreased,

whichever is the less”.

 

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