STATUTORY RULES.
1931. No. 48.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE DEFENCE ACT 1903-1927.
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 Defence Act 1903-1927, to come into operation as from 16th April, 1931.
Dated this sixth day of May, 1931.
ISAAC A. ISAACS
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. B. CHIFLEY,
Minister of State for Defence.
Regulations for Civilian Staff (other than Government Factories) under Defence Act, Section 63.
(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 209, as amended to date.)
Amendments.
1. Regulation 117 b is amended—
(a) by deleting from paragraph (iii) of sub-regulation (1.) the words and figures “receiving salary not exceeding £600 per annum”.
(b) by deleting from sub-regulation (1.) the words and figures—
“Provided that no increase shall be granted under this sub-regulation which would raise the salary of any officer to an amount exceeding £600 per annum”.
(c) by repealing sub-regulations (3.) and (4.).
2. After Regulation 117 b the following Regulations are inserted:—
“117c. Notwithstanding anything contained in Regulations 116 to 117 b (inclusive) of these Regulations, salaries payable in pursuance of the provisions of those Regulations shall, subject to the next succeeding Regulation, be varied in the following manner on 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.
Provided that in the case of officers in receipt of salary in excess of the maximum salary at which the office occupied by the officer is classified under these Regulations reduction shall be at the rate of £6
1139.—Price 3d.
in respect of adult male officers, plus in each case the actual amount of increase granted the officer subsequent to 21st September, 1924, under Regulation 117b:
And provided further that this Regulation shall not apply to Foremen.”
“117 d. Where any periodical payment of the Salary of an officer would, if no decrease in pursuance of Regulations 117b or 117c of these Regulations were effected, be of such amount as would be subject, under the Income Tax (Salaries) Assessment Act 1930 and the Income Tax (Salaries) Act 1930 or under any Acts amending or in substitution for 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 Regulations; and
(b) of less than ten per centum of that payment—no decrease shall be made under either of those 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 Regulation, have been decreased, whichever is the less.”
By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.