Salaries Adjustment Act 1955 (Cth)
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This Act may be cited as the
Salaries Adjustment Act 1955 .
This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(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.
(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.
Auditor-General for the Commonwealth | Section 4- Omit ''Three thousand five hundred pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds'' | |
Commonwealth Railways Commissioner | Section 14- Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand five hundred pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds'' | |
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'' | |
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 Arbitrator | Section 7- Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds'' | |
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'' |
Amended by No. 54, 1955, s. 1; No. 62, 1955, s. 1; and No. 69, 1955, s. 67.
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 |
This endnote sets out details of the legislation history of
the
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) | — |
s 5......................................... | rep No 27,1955 |
Second Schedule..................... | am No 54, 1955; No 62, 1955; No 69, 1955 |
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