Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment)

1925. No. 31.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1924 (FOURTH AMENDMENT, 1925).

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1924, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the said Act, and subject to the approval of the Governor-General, hereby makes the following amendments of the Regulations, such amendments to come into operation as from the 1st July, 1924.

Dated this eighteenth day of February, 1925.

Approved in Executive Council this twenty-fifth day of February, 1925,

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Ll. ATKINSON,

for Prime Minister.

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Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923, No. 93; as amended to this date.)

Regulation 105 is amended by omitting sub-regulations (3), (4), and (5) thereof, and inserting the following sub-regulations in their stead:—

“(3) (a) The limits of salary of the respective classes into which the Third Division is classified under section twenty-seven of the Act shall, subject to this regulation, be of such amounts specified in Table A or Table B of this regulation as are deemed by the Board, in effecting the classification to accord in each case with the importance and character of the work performed.

(b) The limits of salary payable to an officer in any new office created in the Third Division after the commencement of this regulation shall be of such amounts specified in Table A or Table B of this regulation as are fixed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Board in respect to that office:

Provided that, if the office be created in a section of the Commonwealth Service not classified under sub-section (1) of section twenty-seven of the Act, the salary of any officer transferred to that office shall not, pending that classification and unless the Board otherwise determines, be less than the salary to which he was entitled prior to transfer.

(4) The application of the last preceding sub-regulation to male officers shall be subject to the following conditions:—

(a) The maximum of the limits of salary of a classified officer shall not be less than £270.

(b) Subject to the provisions of section 31 of the Act and of regulation 105a. and except as prescribed in paragraph (d) of this sub-regulation, increments may be paid to an officer within the limits of salary fixed in respect to his office, as follows:—

(i) in the case of any officer receiving salary not exceeding £348, of such amount as will raise his salary to the next higher amount shown in Table A of this regulation;

(ii) in the case of any officer receiving salary exceeding £348 and less than £600; of an amount of £18;

(iii) in the case of any officer receiving salary not loss than £600 and less than £900, of an amount of £24; and

(iv) in the case of any officer receiving salary not less than £900, of an amount of £25,

but not in any case beyond the maximum of the limits of salary fixed in respect to his office. In any case where the payment of an increment of an amount specified in this sub-regulation would raise the salary of an officer beyond the maximum of the limits of salary fixed in respect to his office, he may be granted an increment of such amount as will raise his salary to that maximum.

(c) For the purposes of this sub-regulation “salary” shall mean the salary to which an officer would be entitled under the classification together with any increment thereto granted pursuant to this regulation. In any case where an officer is appointed, transferred or promoted to an office other than that in which he was classified, the Board may determine the amount, within the limits of salary fixed in respect to the office, to be regarded as salary for the purposes of this sub-regulation, and may determine the date on which that amount shall be deemed to have been received.

(d) The minimum rates of pay to officers 21 years of age and under shall be as follows:—

(5) The application of sub-regulation (3) of this regulation to female officers shall be subject to the following conditions:—

(a) The maximum of the limits of salary of a classified officer shall not be less than £222.

(b) Subject to the provisions of section 31 of the Act and of regulation 105a, and except as prescribed in paragraph (d) of this sub-regulation, increments may be paid an officer within the limits of salary fixed in respect to her office, as follows:—

(i) in the case of any officer receiving salary not exceeding £348, of such amount as will raise her salary to the next higher amount shown in Table B of this regulation;

(ii) in the case of any officer receiving salary exceeding £348 and less than £600, of an amount of £18;

but not in any case beyond the maximum of the limits of salary fixed in respect to her office. In any case where the payment of an increment of an amount specified in this sub-regulation would raise the salary of an officer beyond the maximum of the limits of salary fixed in respect to her office, she may be granted an increment of such amount as will raise her salary to that maximum.

(c) For the purposes of this sub-regulation “salary” shall mean the salary to which an officer would be entitled under the classification together with any increment thereto granted pursuant to this regulation. In any case where an officer is appointed, transferred or promoted to an office other than that in which she was classified, the Board may determine the amount, within the limits of salary fixed in respect to the office, to be regarded as salary for the purposes of this sub-regulation and may determine the date on which that amount shall be deemed to have been received.

(d) The minimum rates of pay to officers 21 years of age and under shall be as follows:—

Regulation 105a is repealed, and the following regulations are inserted in its stead:—

“105a. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in the last preceding regulation—

(a). An officer occupying, in the Attorney-General’s Department, an office of Examiner of Patents, or of Examiner of Trade Mark shall not be advanced in salary beyond £396 per annum unless the advance is approved by the Board upon satisfactory evidence that the officer is capable of performing efficiently the whole of the duties of an Examiner in the section in which he is employed.

(2) Salary payable in pursuance of sub-regulation (1) of this regulation shall be subject to variation as prescribed in sub-regulations (6) and (7) of the last preceding regulation.

105b. Female officers occupying the following offices-shall be paid rates of salary as follows:—

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