Salaries Adjustment Act 1955 (Cth)

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Salaries Adjustment Act 1955

No. 18, 1955

Compilation date: 16 February 1956

Includes amendments up to:Act No. 69, 1955

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This compilation

This is a compilation of the Salaries Adjustment Act 1955 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 16 February 1956 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments

If the operation of a provision or amendment of the compiled law is affected by an application, saving or transitional provision that is not included in this compilation, details are included in the endnotes.

Modifications

If the compiled law is modified by another law, the compiled law operates as modified but the modification does not amend the text of the law. Accordingly, this compilation does not show the text of the compiled law as modified.

Self‑repealing provisions

If a provision of the compiled law has been repealed in accordance with a provision of the law, details are included in the endnotes.

      

Contents

An Act to provide for Increases in certain Salaries and for purposes connected therewith.

    1Short title

 This Act may be cited as the Salaries Adjustment Act 1955.

2Commencement

 This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3Statutory offices
  • (1)

    The Acts specified in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act (being Acts fixing the salaries payable to the holders of the offices respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule) are amended as respectively specified in the third column of that Schedule.

  • (2)

    The amendments effected by the last preceding sub-section shall be deemed to have had effect from and including the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five.

  • (3)

    Section one hundred and eighty-two of the Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1936-1954  is amended by omitting the words ''Thirty thousand pounds'' and inserting in their stead the words ''Thirty-five thousand pounds''.

  • (4)

    Section one of the Public Service Arbitration Act 1955 is amended by omitting sub-section (3).

  • (5)

    Each Act specified in the first column of the Second Schedule to this Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited in the manner specified in the second column of that Schedule opposite to the reference to that Act in the first column.

4Public Service and other Services
  • (1)

    The variations in the salaries, or limits of salary, of offices or positions specified in the first column of the Third Schedule to this Act made by the authorities respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule on the dates respectively specified in the third column of that Schedule shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and shall have effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect from and including the dates respectively specified in the fourth column of that Schedule, as a re-classification of those offices or positions.

  • (2)

    An office or position so re-classified shall be deemed not to have become vacant by reason of the re-classification.

  • (3)

    Regulations may be made under the Public Service Act 1922-1955 for purposes of or in relation to a re-classification referred to in sub-section (1) of this section of offices to which that Act applies and regulations so made shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-third day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four.

  • (4)

    Any action taken before the commencement of this Act by an authority specified in the second column of the Third Schedule to this Act for purposes of or in relation to a re-classification referred to in sub-section (1) of this section shall be deemed to have been lawfully taken, and, if the authority specified a date as the date from which that action should be deemed to have had effect, to have had effect from that date.

  • (5)

    The action referred to in the last preceding sub-section includes, in the case of an office or position having varied limits of salary applicable to it by virtue of a re-classification referred to in sub-section (1) of this section, action to determine:

    • (a)

      the rate of salary, within those limits, which the occupant of that office or position was entitled to be paid as from the date specified in the fourth column of the Third Schedule to this Act in relation to that office or position; and

    • (b)

      the date as from which the occupant of that office or position would become eligible to be granted his first increment of salary after the date so specified.

  • (6)

    The Public Service Act 1951 is repealed. Section 5 repealed by No. 27, 1955, s. 11.

First Schedule

  

First Column

Acts amended

Second Column

Offices

Third Column

Amendments

Audit Act 1901-1954

Auditor-General for the Commonwealth

Section 4-

Omit ''Three thousand five hundred pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''

Commonwealth Railways Act 1917-1954

Commonwealth Railways Commissioner

Section 14-

Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand five hundred pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''

Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1952, as amended by the Judges' Remuneration Act 1955

Chief Conciliation Commissioner

Section 10-

Omit from sub-section (1) ''Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds'', insert ''Three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds''

Conciliation Commissioner

Section 10-

Omit from sub-section (1) ''One thousand eight hundred pounds'', insert ''Two thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds''

Public Service Act 1922-1954

Chairman of the Public Service Board

Section 13-

Omit from sub-section (1) ''Four thousand pounds'', insert ''Five thousand five hundred pounds''

Member of the Public Service Board

Section 13-

Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''

Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1952, as amended by the Public Service Arbitration Act 1955

Public Service Arbitrator

Section 7-

Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''

Taxation Administration Act 1953, as amended by the Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1953, the Entertainments Tax Abolition Act 1953, the Pay-roll Tax Assessment Act 1953 and the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1953

Commissioner of Taxation

Second Commissioner of Taxation

Section 5-

Omit from sub-section (6) ''Four thousand pounds'', insert ''Five thousand five hundred pounds''

Section 5-

Omit from sub-section (6) ''Three thousand pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''

Second Schedule

  

Amended by No. 54, 1955, s. 1; No. 62, 1955, s. 1; and No. 69, 1955, s. 67.

First Column

Acts amended

Second Column

Citations

Audit Act 1901-1954

Audit Act 1901-1955

Public Service Act 1922-1954

Public Service Act 1922-1955

Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1952, as amended by the Public Service Arbitration Act 1955

Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1955

Taxation Administration Act 1953, as amended by the Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1953, the Entertainments Tax Abolition Act 1953, the Pay-roll Tax Assessment Act 1953 and the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1953

Taxation Administration Act 1953-1955

Third Schedule

  

First Column

Offices and Positions

Second Column

Authority

Third Column

Date of Resolution

Fourth Column

Date of Effect

Offices in the several Departments of State of the Commonwealth

Public Service Board

Nineteenth day of January, 1955

Twenty-third day of December, 1954

Offices in the Department of the Senate

The President of the Senate

Twenty-eighth day of January, 1955

Twenty-third day of December, 1954

Offices in the Department of the House of Representatives

The Speaker of the House of Representatives

Nineteenth day of January, 1955

Twenty-third day of December, 1954

Offices in the Department of the Parliamentary Library

The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives

Nineteenth day of January, 1955

Twenty-third day of December, 1954

Offices in the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff

The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives

Twenty-eighth day of January, 1955

Twenty-third day of December, 1954

Offices in the Joint House Department

The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives

Twenty-third day of February, 1955

Twenty-third day of December, 1954

Positions in the Service of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia)

Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia)

Twentieth day of January, 1955

Twenty-fifth day of December, 1954

Positions in the Service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission

 

Australian Broadcasting Commission

Ninth day of February, 1955

Twenty-sixth day of December, 1954

Positions in the Commonwealth Bank Service

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Third day of March, 1955

Third day of December, 1954

Endnotes

Endnote 1Legislation history

This endnote sets out details of the legislation history of the Salaries Adjustment Act 1955.

Act

Number and year

Assent

Commencement

Application, saving and transitional provisions

Salaries Adjustment Act 1955

18, 1955

10 June 1955

10 June 1955 (s 2)

Superannuation Act 1955

27, 1955

15 June 1955

s 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7(a) and 10: 19 Jan 1955

Remainder: Royal Assent

Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1955

54, 1955

3 Nov 1955

3 Nov 1955

Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1955

62, 1955

4 Nov 1955

4 Nov 1955

Lands Acquisition Act 1955

69, 1955

4 Nov 1955

16 Feb 1956 (see Gazette 1956, p. 472)

Endnote 2Amendment history

Provision affected

How affected

s 5.........................................

rep No 27,1955

Second Schedule.....................

am No 54, 1955; No 62, 1955; No 69, 1955

 
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