Telecommunications Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 27

REGULATION UNDER THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1975.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Telecommunications Act 1975.

Dated this tenth day of March, 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ERIC ROBINSON

Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications.

 

Amendment of the Telecommunications Regulations 

After regulation 35 of the Telecommunications Regulations the following Part is inserted:—

“ Part VA—Application of Division 6 of Part V of the Act to Employees

Application of Division 6 of Part V of the Act to employees.

“ 35a. Division 6 of Part V of the Act applies to and in relation to an employee who—

(a) has been in continuous employ of the Commission for a period of not less than one year; or

(b) has been engaged by the Commission to serve for a period of not less than one year,

subject to the following modifications and adaptions of the provisions of that Division:—

(c) subject to the succeeding paragraphs of this regulation, a reference in that Division to an officer (other than a reference, however expressed, to an officer acting on behalf of the Commission, to an officer authorized for the purposes of sub-section 58 (3) of the Act, to an officer authorized for the purposes of sub-section 58 (5) of the Act or to an officer referred to in paragraph 63 (2) (b) of the Act) shall be read as a reference to an employee;

(d) the words ‘ appointment to the Service ’ in paragraph 58 (1) (g) of the Act shall be read as if the words ‘ engagement as an employee ’ were substituted;

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 15 March 1977.

  Statutory Rules 1975, No. 131 as amended by Statutory Rules 1976, No. 247.

 

(e) the words ‘ his fellow officers ’ in sub-section 59 (1) of the Act shall be read as if the words ‘ of officers and his fellow employees ’ were substituted;

(f) the words ‘ appoint the person as an officer, without probation, to fill ’ in sub-section 61 (3) and sub-paragraph 62 (7) (b) (i) of the Act shall be read as if the words ‘ engage the person as an employee to perform the duties of ’ were substituted;

(g) a reference in that Division, however expressed, to the transfer of an officer to a position shall be read as a reference to a direction to an employee to perform the duties of that position;

(h) the words ‘ reappoint the person as an officer and appoint him to ’ in sub-section 64 (6) of the Act shall be read as if the words ‘ re-engage the person as an employee and direct him to perform the duties of ’ were substituted.”.